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lots. The design of Plate XI is for a front to the east ; the house 
is therefore placed near the north side of the lot, the exposures of 
the principal rooms are to the east, south, and west, and the views 
out of them are made longer and nobler by thus crowding the 
house and all its utilitarian ajDpendages towards that side. The 
present plan is suited to a lot having a frontage to the south, and 
the plan calls for an equally good exposure for the rooms on both 
sides of the house. The liberal space allowed for orchard, vegeta- 
ble-garden and stable-yard necessarily deprives the ground of the 
fine air that longer and broader stretches of unbroken lawn pro- 
duce ; but each of the principal rooms having exposures differing 
essentially from the others, the variety of views must atone for their 
want of extent. 
The carriage-entrances to this place are shown nearer to the 
corners than they should be. On so broad a front there should be 
twenty feet instead of ten, between the drive at the entrances and 
the nearest part of the adjacent lots. Premising this alteration to 
be made in the plan, the only change in the planting would be that 
the trees B, C, and I, J, shall be planted nearer together, and more 
nearly at right-angles, than parallel, with the front of the lot. The 
capital letters on the plan are used to designate the larger class of 
trees of a permanent character, and the small letters, the shrubs 
and very small trees. 
Though this is an in-lot, and generally margined by high fences 
and close plantations, one opening on each side has been left to 
give views across neighbor-lots which are supposed to warrant 
it. If the reader will follow on the plan we will select trees and 
shrubs as follows : on the left of the left-hand gate as we enter 
may be a weeping willow, midway between the drive and the ad- 
joining lot line, and ten feet from the front. The margin, b, b, is 
to be planted with a dense mass of fine common shrubs, or left 
more open, accordingly as the neighbor-lot at that point is pleas- 
ing or the reverse. B, is a golden willow ; and C, a weeping birch. 
All these trees grow with great rapidity. D, may be a weeping 
beech ; E, a group of three sassafras trees j F (nearest the house), 
the Kolreuteria paniculata; F (nearest the street), the purple-leaved 
sycamore maple ; G (northwest of the bed-room), the golden-leaved 
