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Plates V and VI. 



Designs for Village Lots 60 x 1^0 feci: one an In-Lot, and the other 

 a Come?- Lot. 



These designs are ver}' simple and inexpensive in their 

 character, and have been partially described in Chapter XI. The 

 house-plan is the same in both ; not compact, but rather stretched 

 along the side of the lot farthest from the street so as to 

 leave a fair space on the other side, upon which the best rooms 

 and the verandas (which may be considered the pleasantest sum- 

 mer rooms of a house) are located. The house-fronts are each 

 forty feet from the main street. Both ground-plans are supposed 

 to open into other yards adjoining, on a line from ten to twenty- 

 five feet from the street ; on that line they are, therefore, left un- 

 planted with anything that will obstruct views across the lawn. 

 On Plate V the walks are made in right lines ; while, on Plate VI, 

 the entrance being at the corner, convenience dictates curved lines 

 as the most desirable. If, on the latter, the gateway were in the 

 same place as in the former, the straight-line walk would be pre- 

 ferable, as there would be no object in making it otherwise. 



Platp: V. — The front gate is to be arched over in some of 

 the modes suggested in Chapter XIV, and on the left a dense 

 screen to the corner is to be made ^yith exergreen shrubs or 

 shrubby trees. Twenty feet from the front, and five feet from 

 the left side, a tree of medium size is represented. It may be 

 any one of the following : a Magnolia viachrop/iylia, catalpa, 

 double white or red-flowering horse-chestnut, bird cherry {Pniniis 

 padiis), a cut-leaved weeping birch, purple-beech, Kolreutcria, Vir- 

 ginia, red-twigged linden, grape-leaved linden, scarlet maple, 

 purple-leaved maple, Salisburia or ginkgo tree (if cut back at the 

 top), or a sassafras. Any handsome tree will do which branches 

 low, but still high enough to allow a person to walk under its 

 branches after it has been planted five or six years, and which 

 does not quickly become a great tree. Five feet from the fence, 



