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The accompanying plan^ adapted from Loudon, gives a good 

 illustration of the observance of the second rule. The plan repre- 

 sents the part of a lot in the rear of the dwelling, all of which is 

 devoted to lawn and decorative planting ; the entrance-front being 

 close to the street. The plantation is supposed to be entirely 

 secluded from the street and from contiguous properties by walls. 

 The space covered is about 150 x 300 feet. The dotted lines 

 radiating from the bow-window show the apparently loose, but 

 really well studied distribution of groups of trees and shrubs in 

 radiating lines. On the right, one of these groups forms a screen 

 of shrubbery to divide the lawn from the elaborate flower-garden 

 which forms the distinctive feature of the view from the dining- 

 room window. On smaller lots the first part of the second rule 

 cannot be illustrated with so much effect, but a general conformity 

 to it may be observed in many of our larger plans. 



Plate II represents a lot one hundred and fifty feet front by 

 two hundred and fifty deep, where the house is placed much nearer 

 the front of the lot, and nearly in the centre. So placed, the long- 

 est views over its lawn cannot be obtained from the house in any 

 direction, but from many points in the front street, and withm the 

 grounds, the lines of view are as long and unbroken as the size of 

 the lot will admit of; while a partial privacy is given to the space 

 between the bay-windows and the side street, by a close plantation 

 of hedge and shrubbery. Openness, rather than privacy, is the 

 characteristic of this plan, however, and its best views are obtained 

 on entering or passing it. Yet' the lawn, as seen from the bay- 

 windows, will be broken by shrubs and trees into a much greater 

 variety of views than a careless examination of the plan would lead 

 one to suppose. From o, at the intersection of the two streets, 

 the eye ranges between two near groups of shrubbery, which frame 

 the view over the lawn to the bay-windows ; and on the right, in 

 front of the back veranda, between slender conical trees, a flower- 

 bed and a pyramid of roses, under the shade of fruit trees in the 

 back yard, to the carriage-house front: — a distance equal to the 

 entire length of the lot. From the point marked 2, the view 

 changes ; the croquet-ground, and the intervening compact shrubs 

 and flower-beds, and an evergreen group at g, come into view. 

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