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the house-wall may be low-growing roses, or rhododendrons alter- 

 nated with the scarlet salvia among them. In the inner angles of the 

 bay-window, if of brick, we would have the English ivy, or the 

 Virginia creeper ; if of wood, then some rhododendron of medium 

 height, and around them at y and z, compact masses of the smallest 

 sorts ; or one side may be more quickly filled with a single pink 

 deutzia, and the other with a tartarian bush honeysuckle. The 

 shrubs at the corner of tlie rear veranda may be the Chinese sub- 

 evergreen honeysuckle on the post ; a Swedish juniper next to it ; 

 and the erect yew, the golden yew, and the golden arbor-vitae 

 around the juniper. 



The materials for the flower-beds s, t, u, v, w, x, need not be 

 specified in detail. 



The border back of the rear walk represents currant bushes. 

 It might better be a grape-trellis. 



Plate XVI. 



A large Mansion on an In-Lot of two hundred feet front by three 

 hundred and forty feet deep. 



This house is, in size, much above the average of suburban 

 homes, and the area of the lot is sufficient to harmonize with the 

 mansion-character of the house.* The arrangement of the drive- 

 way is quite simple. The house being placed nearly in the middle 

 of the width of the lot, and the stable, vegetable-garden, and 

 orchard, occupying the rear third of the length of it, there is not an 

 extent of lawn in proportion to the depth of the lot ; the ground 

 design being in this respect inferior to that of Plate XI, where a 

 lot forty feet shorter has a lawn much longer. The difference is 

 mainly in the greater extent of the orchard, the vegetable-garden 

 and the stable yard on the plan now under consideration ; and the 

 different positions of the mansion and the stable on the respective 



* The vignette at the head of Chapter VI is from a drawing of this house, kindly ftmiished 

 by the architect, R. W. Bunnell, Esq., of Bridgeport, Conn., but the gi-ounds as there shown are 

 not intended to illustrate this plan. 



