attached to one on the neighboring lot, selected thus be- 

 cause free circulation and light had to be made possible 

 from the other directions. If the house, 32 by 60 feet, 

 should be found in need of extension, its upper structure 

 could well overlap part of the shelter and more space be 

 given to the inhabitants. The shelter, animals, and appa- 

 ratus are kept in the corner, because a second building 

 abutted at the rear of that lot and we have to keep that part 

 as dry as possible. Lawns, toy-gardens, and apparatus find 

 their accommodation according to the room left. This is a 

 convenient arrangement and a picturesque setting of such 

 grounds. A suitable manner of planting these grounds is 

 described in a subsequent paragraph. 



Plate number eight deals with grounds which are harshly 

 walled in by neighboring buildings. Good light comes only 

 from the front and all the color of green and the desirable 

 shrubbery is here located. The building, 28 by 60 feet with 

 an L of 20 by 22 feet, abutts the adjoining building and 

 springs well out into the grounds to benefit from fullest ex- 

 posure. The low shelter is kept in the corner towards the 

 street and the toy-garden against the property line where 

 the reflex from the house on the next lot warms it. The 

 animals occupy the corner ; seesaws, swings, and sandcourts 

 are before these plots. Perfect dryness and circulation of 

 air is secured in this part of the walled-in grounds. Two 

 large pieces of lawn fill the foreground and give a rich set- 

 ting to the building as seen from the street. 



The last design, plate number nine, shows an inside one- 

 hundred-foot lot. We feel at once the necessity of reducing 



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