STUDIES PRELIMINARY TO PLANTING 



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rows of trees to be set out, will be governed by its width, 

 height of the buildings along the street, and their proximity 

 to the planting-line. On the average street the width from 



Fio. 1. — Layout of a street fifty feet wide from property line to property line. 



fence-line to fence-line is divided into two-fifths for side- 

 walks and three-fifths for the roadway. Residence streets 

 are usually fifty feet wide. This arrangement leaves the 

 sidewalk space ten feet wide, and it can be divided into a 

 4-foot planting-strip, 4-foot walk, and a 2-foot sod space be- 

 tween the walk and the property-line, as shown in Fig. 1. 

 Streets sixty feet wide from fence-line to fence-line are 



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FiG. 2. — Layout of a street sixty feet wide. 



