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lots. The design of Plate XI is for a front to the east ; the house 

 is therefore placed near the north side of the lot, the exposures of 

 the principal rooms are to the east, south, and west, and the views 

 out of them are made longer and nobler by thus .crowding the 

 house and all its utilitarian appendages towards that side. The 

 present plan is suited to a lot having a frontage to the south, and 

 the plan calls for an equally good exposure for the rooms on both 

 sides of the house. The liberal space allowed for orchard, vegeta- 

 ble-garden and stable-yard necessarily deprives the ground of the 

 fine air that longer and broader stretches of unbroken lawn pro- 

 duce ; but each of the principal rooms having exposures differing 

 essentially from the others, the variety of views must atone for their 

 want of extent. 



The carriage-entrances to this place are shown nearer to the 

 corners than they should be. On so broad a front there should be 

 twenty feet instead of ten, between the drive at the entrances and 

 the nearest part of the adjacent lots. Premising this alteration to 

 be made in the plan, the only change in the planting would be that 

 the trees B, C, and I, J, shall be planted nearer together, and more 

 nearly at right-angles, than parallel, with the front of the lot. The 

 capital letters on the plan are used to designate the larger class of 

 trees of a permanent character, and the small letters, the shrubs 

 and very small trees. 



Though this is an in-lot, and generally margined by high fences 

 and close plantations, one opening on each side has been left to 

 give views across neighbor-lots which are supposed to warrant 

 it. If the reader will follow on the plan we will select trees and 

 shrubs as follows : on the left of the left-hand gate as we enter 

 may be a weeping willow, midway between the drive and the ad- 

 joining lot line, and ten feet from the front. The margin, b, b, is 

 to be planted with a dense mass of fine common shrubs, or left 

 more open, accordingly as the neighbor-lot at that point is pleas- 

 ing or the reverse. B, is a golden willow ; and C, a weeping birch. 

 All these trees grow with great rapidity. D, may be a weeping 

 beech ; E, a group of three sassafras trees ; F (nearest the house), 

 the Kolnuteria paniculata ; F (nearest the street), the purple-leaved 

 sycamore maple ; G (northwest of the bed-room), the golden-leaved 



