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justice to the pleasing effects of such plantations. Photographic 

 views occasionally give exquisite effects of parts of embellished 

 grounds, but even these fail to convey a correct impression of the 

 accessories of the central point of view. It is quite certain that a 

 place planted (and well kept) in the manner indicated- by this plate 

 and description, will be far prettier than any picture of it that can. 

 be engraved. 



Plates XIV and XV. 



Two Methods of Planting a small Corner Lot. 



In these two plates we desire to illustrate two modes of treat- 

 ing a village corner lot of fifty feet front, where the small depth of 

 the lot, or other circumstances, requires the house to be placed 

 quite near the front street. The house plans resemble each other 

 in form, though it will be seen that the one on Plate XIV is set 

 but five steps above the level of the ground, and has its kitchen 

 and dining-room on the main floor, while the plan on Plate XV 

 is a city basement house, with kitchen and dining-room under the 

 bed-room and parlor, the main floor being raised ten steps above 

 the street. The two ground plans (by which we mean plans of 

 the grounds) differ essentially in this, that the first has one side- 

 wall of the house directly on the street, so as to throw its narrow- 

 strip of lawn, and embellishments, on the inside of the lot, away 

 from the side-street ; while on Plate XV the entire length of the 

 house on that side is supposed to be a party-wall, as if it were 

 part of a block, or one of a pair of houses. 



Ground Plan of Plate XI-V. — The veranda front is but 

 eight feet from the street. Unless the approach-steps are of a 

 character less plain than those shown on the plan, little can be- 

 done to decorate this narrow space. The veranda can be covered 

 with vines, and a strip three feet wide in front of it may be de- 

 voted to choice flowers; but we would advise to have nothing 

 there but the vines and the lawn. On each side the steps we 

 would plant either the tree-box, the golden yew, the golden arbor- 



