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Plate VIII. 



A simple Plan for a Corner Lot otie hundred by one hundred and 

 seventy feet, with Stable and Carriage-house accommodations. 



By referring to Plates IX and XII, and comparing them with, 

 the one now under consideration, it will be seen that there is a 

 similarity in the forms and sizes of the lots and the house-plans. 

 A comparison of their differences will be interesting. Plates VIII 

 and IX represent corner lots loo x 170 feet, leaving stable and 

 carriage-house accommodations, while Plate XII is an in-lot 

 100 X 160 feet, without those luxuries, but with convenience for 

 keeping a cow. Plan VIII is designed to illustrate the utmost 

 simplicity of style, requiring the minimum of trouble and expense 

 in its maintenance. In both plans the nearest part of the house 

 stapds thirty feet from the side street, and eighty-two feet from 

 the street upon which the bay-windows look out. On this plaa 

 the short straight walk from the side street to the veranda is 

 the only one that requires to be carefully made, and is but 

 twenty-seven feet in length from the street to the steps ; while on. 

 Plate IX there is an entrance from both streets, connected by a 

 curving walk with the main house entrance, and other walks to the 

 kitchen entrances and carriage-house. This difference in the walks 

 is suggestive of the greater embellishment of the latter plan in all 

 other respects, and, with its vases, flower-beds, and more numerous 

 groups of shrubbery, indicates the necessity for the constant services 

 of a gardener. Plan VIII, on the other hand, with its plain lawn, 

 and groups of trees which require but little care, and its few plain 

 flower-beds, may easily be taken care of by any industrious pro- 

 prietor, before ahd after the hours devoted to town business — • 

 especially if the wife will assume the care of the flowers — and if 

 the lawn is in high condition, and 'the trees are kept growing lux- 

 uriantly, the simplicity of the planting will not result in any lack 

 of that air of elegance which most persons desire to have theii 

 places express ; for it is not so much costliness and elaborateness 

 that challenges the admiration of cultivated people as the uncon- 



