SUBURBAN RESIDENCES. 

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consulting-room, if occupied by a medical practitioner ; or a clerk's office 

 and a master's office, if occupied by a solicitor. In this case, both houses 

 being, as it were, occupied by one family, the wire fence separating the two 

 entrance walks, and the group of evergreens in front of the centre of the 

 porch, are imnecessary ; and they have been, accordingly, omitted by Mr. 

 Lamb, in the elevation to this plan {fg. 40.). 



166. Planting the garden. — The front and side boundary walls, and the 

 party fence which divides the two back gardens, are supposed to be planted 

 with ivy ; and the margins within the side and front boundary walls with 

 laurustinus as an undershrub, and with different species of Grata; gus as trees ; 

 as far as the culinary part of the back garden, or as far as the reserve ground, 

 according as the taste of the occupier may be for verdant walls during winter 

 and summer, or for fruit trees. The reason for this mode of planting will be 

 hereafter given. 



167. In the front garden, g in fg. 45. shows small circular beds (which 

 may be from 1 ft. to 1 ft. 6 in. in diameter) on turf, at regular distances, for 

 containing a few select dahlias, neatly trained to stakes. Instead of dahlias, 

 any other tall-growing plant with showy flowers might be substituted ; and 

 the best of these would be chrysanthemums, provided the situation were 



