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look as large as possible by placing all trees and shrubbery on the 
margin ; in short, the greatest length and breadth of lawn that the 
lot will admit of is preserved. Plate VII shows a village lot of the 
same frontage as the preceding, but on which the house is only 
twenty-five feet from the street. There can be no good breadth of 
lawn on this lot, since the house occupies the ground that forms the 
lawn on Plate No. IV. But a peculiar little vista over narrow 
strips of lawn skirting the walk is obtained on entering the front 
gate. This is upwards of one hundred feet in length, and widens 
out around the flower-bed S, so that in perspective, and contrasted 
with the length and narrowness of the strips of lawn near the 
house, it will give the effect of greater distance and width than it 
has. Such a plan as this requires the most skillful planting and 
high keeping. Indeed, there is more need of skill to make this 
narrow strip a pretty work of art than on the larger lots that are 
planned for this work. Plates XIV and XV show corner lots 
also of fifty feet front, with houses entirely on one side of the lot, 
and lawns as long as the depth will admit of, margined by assorted 
small shrubs and clipped trees. On the former the house is placed 
against the side street, leaving the lawn on the inside, and a pleas- 
ing vista over it to an archway that opens into a long grape arbor. 
This will make a lengthened perspective of lawn and garden as 
great as the size of the lot will allow. On Plate XV the house is 
placed so as to leave the lawn space between it and the side street, 
and the main garden walk is arranged so that from the back 
veranda and the library windows it will form a little perspective. 
The latter plan, it will be seen, is for a city basement-house, while 
the former has a kitchen on the main floor. Plates Nos. V and 
VI are of lots 6o x 150 feet, where the lawns occupy as great a 
length as can be spared for decorative purposes. These side lawns 
are no wider than those of Plates XIV and XV, as the additional 
ten feet width of lot, on the right, is shut out of view, and devoted 
to small fruits. This strip in the hands of a garden artist might be 
made very charming in itself, but where one man would make it so, 
a thousand would fail. We therefore advise in general not to 
plant anything against the walls of the house in such narrow strips 
as these, unless they have the most sunny exposure. In towns. 
