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KUKAIi ABCHITECTDTIE. 

 DESIGN FOR A SUBUEBAN RESIDENCE, WITH GROUNDS, BY GEO. E. HARNEY, LYNN, MASS. 



DESIGNED AND KNGRAVKD EXPRESSLY FOB THE NEW ENGLAND FARMER 



In connection with a former plan, yve ventured 

 a few hints regarding cottage grounds, with a 

 promise that at some future time we should offer 

 plans for laying out such grounds, showing the lo- 

 cation of the buildings, foot-paths and roads, and 

 the proper method of arranging the trees, shrub- 

 bery and flowers, so as to produce the best effect, 

 and as a favorable opportunity now offers itself, 

 we know of no more seasonable time for redeem- 

 ing the promise. 



We therefore give at this time, in season for its 

 suggestions to be adopted this year, a design for 

 a simple cottage, with its plan, and the plan of 

 the lot on wliich it is situated. 



This lot is supposed to be located either in the 

 suburbs of some city, or in some country village, 

 where a considerable population has centered — in 

 the neighborhood of schools, churches and stores 

 — facing the village green, perhaps — at all events, 

 in some locality where the lots are larger than the 

 city affords, though more circumscribed than those 

 we would find in the open country. 



It is at the intersection of two streets, and com- 

 prises between an eighth and a quarter of an acre, 

 devoted to ornamental purposes alone, the kitchen 



garden and domestic offices being in the rear, and 

 not included in our present plan. 



The dwelling stands back thirty feet from the 

 street, on a slightly elevated spot, which slopes 

 gradually away to the boundaries. A foot-jDath, 

 five feet wide, starting from the front gate, passes 

 the front entrance, and finally terminates in the 

 open yard in the rear. This, with the carriage- 

 road, which leads from the side gate to the stable, 

 is the only path we have introduced on the plan, 

 nor is it desirable to traverse the whole lot by 

 gravelled Avalks, tending as they do to diminish 

 its apparent size by bringing the boundaries near- 

 er the eye, and involving a considerable outlay of 

 money and time in making and keeping in order. 

 It is, however, of great importance that what paths 

 we do make, should be made in a thorough man- 

 ner at the outset. In order to have a perfect 

 road, the soil, in the first place — after the curves 

 have been marked and the lines run — should be 

 excavated from eighteen inches to two feet deep, 

 and all the loam taken away and spread upon 

 some part of the garden ; then this ditch should 

 be about half filled with any small stones which 

 may be picked up here and there about the place 



