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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 w'ood, 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 the 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-vitre 
around the juniper. 
The materials for the flower-beds f, zq z', 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 furnished 
by the architect, R. W. Bunnell, Esq., of Bridgeport, Conn., but the grounds as there shown are 
not intended to illustrate this plan. 
