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and study are necessary for the best results. The drain- 

 age problem is rarely a simple one, and the character of 

 the road best suited to the territory is a matter that 

 also requires due consideration and study. 



To sum up, if the reader wishes to divide up his 

 property into building lots, on account of a demand for 

 moderate-sized homes that has sprung up in his neigh- 

 borhood, he needs to think of a great many things that 

 will be required for the proper development of both the 

 inherent and undiscovered beauty and the usefulness of 

 his property for the purpose to which he intends to con- 

 vert it. 



Perhaps as satisfactory a method of discussing this 

 subject, which is evidently a more fruitful one than it 

 would appear to be at first sight, is the consideration of 

 an actual example we have before us, on page 180, where 

 nearly all the problems that would have to be faced on 

 any place of the kind seem to confront us in one form 

 or another. The property in question is a bit of hilly 

 country, in an inland town in the South, and is pictur- 

 esque and charming to a high degree, being clothed in 

 part by a beautiful variety of forest trees — oaks, chest- 

 nuts, etc. — and, at the same time, looking out from its 

 more open portions over a lovely mountain landscape. 

 People come to the region both winter and summer for 

 the enjoyment of the climate and the beautiful natural 

 scenery, and although there are several large, luxurious 

 hotels and country estates, there is a great want felt for 

 houses and grounds of moderate dimensions and expense. 



With a view of supplying this demand, the owner of 

 the property we are considering has undertaken to divide 

 its thirty-five acres into lots of an acre or two, and to 

 lay out convenient roads that will reach all parts of the 



