SUBURBAN RESIDENCES. 



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Design VIII. — A doulle siihtirhan villa, with an ornamental garden, and 

 tlie entrance porcJies at opposite sides. 



159. General arrangement. — Fig. 43. bliovvs a common, and at the same 

 time an effectual, mode of arranging and placing the entrances of two small 

 suburban villas, so as to make them have the apjiearance of a single house. 

 In this case, a square building, containing two houses, is entered by porches 

 at opposite sides ; and there are back entrances to each house, communicating 

 with the area, and the garden behind each. The space in front of the houses 

 is divided by a wire fence in the centre ; so that a stranger entering from the 

 street, and proceeding towards either house, sees across the whole width of 

 the front garden ; and both the houses and gardens appear to him to be one, 

 and to be occupied by the same family. We have shown in this figure how 

 shrubs and low trees may be distributed so as to aid this illusion. Each house 

 contains an entrance -porch and staircase (a), dining-room (b), and drawing- 

 room (c), with a recess, which, in Elizabethan houses, is called a bay {d), 

 communicating M'ith a small closet. Between the two houses there is a pedestal 

 and vase, as indicated at e ; and on the lawns (/, g, h, i, andj) there are no 

 flower-beds, but only flowering shrubs and low trees : k and / are verandas ; 

 m, the sunk area, communicating with the walk by steps, and leading to the 

 door of the back kitchen ; and n shows the descent, by a few steps, from the 

 veranda to the garden. The style of these houses, designed for us by E. B. 

 Lamb, Esq., is supposed to be the Elizabethan ; and fg. 44. is a perspective 

 view, showing the front of both houses next the road, and the entrance front 

 of one of them. 



IGO. 2"he object in laging out and planting these'gardens we shall suppose to 

 be a display of choice lov/ trees and shrubs, but planted in such a manner as 

 not to require much expense in keeping the garden in order. Flowcrin"- 

 plants wo shall imagine to be altogelher dispensed with, except some in pots 

 (which may be grown in a reserve ground, or supplied for a fixed yearly sum 

 by a commercial gardener), fur placing in the balconies over the bays, and 

 under the verandas. The adjoining gardens we shall suppose to be planted 

 much in the sa;ne manner ; or, indeed, in any manner, provided a few trees, 



