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look as large as possible by placing all trees and shrubbery on the 

 margin ; \\\ short, the greatest length and breadth of lawn that the 

 lot will admit of is preserved. Plate VII shows a village lot of the 

 same frontage as the preceding, but on which the house is only 

 twenty-five feet from the street. There can be no good breadth of 

 lawn on this lot, since the house occupies the ground that forms the 

 law'n on Plate No. IV. But a peculiar little vista over narrow 

 strips of lawn skirting the walk is obtained on entering the front 

 gate. This is upwards of one hundred feet in length, and widens 

 out around the flower-bed S, so that in perspective, and contrasted 

 with the length and narrow"ness of the strips of lawn near the 

 house, it will give the effect of greater distance and width than it 

 has. Such a plan as this requires the most skillful planting and 

 high keeping. Indeed, there is more need of skill to make this 

 narrow strip a pretty work of art than on the larger lots that are 

 planned for this work. Plates XIV and XV show corner lots 

 also of fifty feet front, with houses entirely on one side of the lot, 

 and law'ns as long as the depth w'ill admit of, margined by assorted 

 small shrubs and clipped trees. On the former the house is placed 

 against the side street, leaving the lawn on the inside, and a pleas- 

 ing vista over it to an archway that opens into a long grape arbor. 

 This will make a lengthened perspective of lawn and garden as 

 great as the size of the lot will allow. On Plate XV the house is 

 placed so as to leave the lawn space between it and the side street, 

 and the main garden walk is arranged so that from the back 

 veranda and the library windows it will form a little perspective. 

 The latter plan, it will be seen, is for a city basement-house, while 

 the former has a kitchen on the main floor. Plates Nos. V and 

 VI are of lots 60 x 150 feet, where the lawns occupy as great a 

 length as can be spared for decorative purposes. These side lawns 

 are no wider than those of Plates XIV and XV, as the additional 

 ten feet width of lot, on the right, is shut out of view, and devoted 

 to small fruits. This strip in the hands of a garden artist might be 

 made very charming in itself, but where one man would make it so, 

 a thousand would fail. We therefore advise in general not to 

 plant anything against the walls of the house in such narrow strips 

 as these, unless they have the most sunny exposure. In towns, 



