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PLANS OF RESIDENCES 
Plates V and VI. 
Designs for Village Lots 6o x 150 feet : one an I?i-Lot^ and the other 
a Corner Lot. 
These designs are very simple and inexpensive in their 
character, and have been partially described in Chapter XI. The 
house-plan is the same in both ; not compact, but rather stretched 
along the side of the lot farthest from the street so as to 
leave a fair space on the other side, upon which the best rooms 
and the verandas (which may be considered the pleasantest sum- 
mer rooms of a house) are located. The house-fronts are each 
forty feet from the main street. Both ground-plans are supposed 
to open into other yards adjoining, on a line from ten to twenty- 
five feet from the street ; on that line they are, therefore, left un- 
planted with anything that will obstruct views across the lawn. 
On Plate V the walks are made in right lines ; while, on Plate VI, 
the entrance being at the corner, convenience dictates curved lines 
as the most desirable. If, on the latter, the gateway were in the 
same place as in the former, the straight-line walk would be pre- 
ferable, as there would be no object in making it otherwise. 
Plate V. — The front gate is to be arched over in some of 
the modes suggested in Chapter XIV, and on the left a dense 
screen to the corner is to be made with evergreen shrubs or 
shrubby trees. Twenty feet from the front, and five feet from 
the left side, a tree of medium size is represented. It may be 
any one of the following : a Magnolia machrophylla^ catalpa, 
double white or red-flowering horse-chestnut, bird cherry (^Primus 
padits')^ a cut-leaved weeping birch, purple-beech, Kolreuteria., Vir- 
gilia, red-twigged linden, grape-leaved linden, scarlet maple, 
purple-leaved maple, Salisburia or ginkgo tree (if cut back at the 
top), or a sassafras. Any handsome tree will do which branches 
low, but still high enough to allow a person to walk under its 
branches after it has been planted five or six years, and which 
does not quickly become a great tree. Five feet from the fence, 
