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PLANS OF RESIDENCES 
The groups in front of the veranda, between the cherry trees, 
and those against the house, may be composed of shrubs which 
are family favorites, or with annual and perennial flowering plants 
of graded sizes. The flower-beds adjacent to the main walk are 
for low-growing plants only. The two small bushes behind the 
flower-beds nearest the gate are to be, one the golden arbor-vitae, 
and the other the golden yew ; and in the rear of the next flower- 
bed on the right, an Irish juniper is intended. Between the bay- 
windows a weeping juniper, y. ohlonga pe7idula^ or the weeping 
Norway spruce, Abies e. inverta^ may be planted, or the bed may be 
occupied as described for Plate VIII. The beds directly in front 
of the bay-windows can be different each year, with such plants 
as some of the medium-sized cannas, the Wigandia caracasana^ 
the Nicoteana atropiirpiirea grandijiora^ and the Japanese maize 
for the centre plant, and round, bushy-headed plants, like the 
geraniums and the CoUeus verschafelti^ for the projecting parts of 
the beds. 
Since the engraving has been completed, we perceive that the 
kitchen department of this lot — that back of the grape-trellis — 
might be more advantageously planned, but as we cannot now 
correct it, the reader’s ingenuity must be exercised to improve it. 
Plate XIII. 
A Pla7i of the Grou7ids for a Co77i77iodious House with a side-e7itratice 
porch^ 071 a7t Piside Lot havmg a fro7it of 07ie hu7idred a7id sixty 
feet 071 the street^ and a depth of three himdred and eight feet. 
The front of the main veranda of the house is seventy feet 
from the street j the distance from the porch-front to the side of 
the lot is sixty-five feet, and the space between the house and the 
right-hand side of the lot is forty feet. This is a very desirable 
form of lot. It allows of a long reach of lawn on the entrance-side, 
and sufficient openness on all sides to be in keeping with so large 
a house ; while there is ample room for stable and carriage-house 
conveniences, fruit trees, and a vegetable garden. 
