208 FLAXS OF RESIDENCES 



Platk XX. 



A Compact House, on an In- Lot of ninety-six fed front, with a7nple 

 depth, and a Lawn connecting with adjoining neighbors. 



The main house is here 36 x 40, and the rear joart 20 x 32 

 feet. The front veranda is ten feet in width, and between it and 

 the street the distance is ninety-six feet. The lot is one hundred 

 and ninety-six feet in depth back to the grape-trellis that divides 

 the lawn from the garden, and is supposed to have ample room 

 back of this for vegetables and small fruits. 



Whether or not the occupants of this place keep horse and car- 

 riage, the front and sides of the lot are designed without any refer- 

 ence to them. 



Floral embellishment is a prominent feature of this design, and 

 this is nearly all in front of the house. The walk with two street- 

 entrances encloses a circle seventy-two feet in diameter, on the 

 margin of which the flower-beds are arranged, leaving the interior 

 of the circle in lawn, unbroken sa\'e by a large low vase for flowers 

 in the centre. Most of the interest of the place being thus between 

 the house and the street, where exposure to passers on the street 

 might annoy the occupants in the care and enjoyment of their 

 flowers and plants, it is essential that this circle should be hidden 

 from the street except at the gateways. The reader already knows 

 that we have no sympathy with that churlish spirit which would 

 shut a pleasing picture out of sight from the sheer love of exclu- 

 sive possession ; but we have respect for that repugnance which 

 most persons, and especially ladies, feel against a peering curiosity 

 in their domestic enjoyments ; and as the care of one's flowers and 

 trees is one of the sweetest of domestic labors, we would protect 

 the privacy of working hours among them to an extent that may 

 not degenerate into a selfish exclusiveness. In this plan, as en- 

 graved, the mass of screening foliage is not as large as would be 

 necessary, but the trees as there placed will form a sufficient pro- 

 tection after ten years growth to insure a reasonable privacy for the 

 floral lawn. It will be observed that this is not effected by a 



