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house fifty-five its shorter dimension may have been 

 on the building line, though I doubt it, for this would 

 have made it extend beyond the house towards the 

 back; but even this is thirty-five feet then the barn, 

 carriage-house, tool-house, poultry-house and all the 

 rest. 



Remember that Penn especially stipulated that all 

 should be uniform and not "a scu" from the house; 

 and the description mentions particularly that the 

 offices were "arranged alongside on the front line of 

 it." In this wonderful expanse there was only one 

 break the space occupied by the court and here the 

 row of English redheart cherry trees continued the 

 line, and gave continuity to a group which must have 

 conveyed a sense of comfort and rest and home quite 

 without parallel. 



Which of all these is the best*? Each must answer 

 for himself. Designing a garden to-day along any 

 one of these five lines is a simple enough task, once the 

 selection is made. That selection, as I have tried to 

 show, is the crucial thing; and altogether a personal 

 matter. Some of the considerations which might in- 

 fluence it, outside of personal taste indeed, which 

 should influence it, regardless of personal taste are, 

 first of all, the system of buildings to be erected, or al- 

 ready erected. I speak of them as a system because 

 that is what they were in old times, distinctly; and in 



