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dotted line), thus receiving a more favorable impression of the 

 extent and beauty of the ground than if the gate-entrance were 

 directly in front of the front door, this location of the gateway 

 naturally suggests a side approach to the porch. But a porch of 

 this form is of itself desirable in such a location, by permitting a 

 heavy mass of shrubs to be planted directly in its front, leaving the 

 lawn in front unbroken, and making the porch appear more distant 

 and retired from the street than it would were the steps and walk 

 directly in front of it, in the usual mode. It also makes a con- 

 venient front-entrance to the basement at the side of the parlor 

 bay-window. 



The grounds of this group of places are quite simple in the 

 style of planting ; yet, if laid out as here indicated, the materials 

 properly chosen and well kept, they would be noticeable for their 

 elegance. The necessarily small scale on which these groups of 

 houses and lots are planned, makes it impracticable to describe 

 them in detail, especially with reference to the selections of shrubs 

 and trees. 



Plate XXIV. 



J^our Residences, occupying the end of a Block two hundred feet in 

 width, on Lots one hundred and fifty feet deep, and representing 

 widely different for7ns of Houses and Lots. 



We will here suppose that the two lots on the left, each sixty 

 feet front, were first purchased and improved ; and the next twenty- 

 five feet were then purchased by some one who cared little for 

 grounds, and wished merely to provide himself a good town-house ; 

 and then the remaining fifty-five feet of the block by some one who 

 could afford a larger style of improvement, including a carriage- 

 house and stable. Also, that numbers one and two having built 

 their house-fronts about forty feet from the street, purchaser num- 

 ber three has the good taste to put his front on the same line ; but 

 number four having a much longer house is obliged to crowd 

 forward of the line a little. It is pleasant to observe how, in this 

 group of utterly unlike houses, the peculiarity of each adds to the 



