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PLANS OF BE SIB E NC E S 
Plate XX. 
A Co7?ipact Hoiise^ o?t an In-Lot of ninety-six feet fronts with ample 
depths and a Lawn connecting with adjoining neighbors. 
The main house is here 36 x 40, and the rear part 20 x 32 
feet. The front veranda is ten feet in width, and between it and 
the street the distance is ninety-six feet. The lot is one hundred 
and ninety-six feet in depth back to the grape-trellis that divides 
the lawn from the garden, and is supposed to have ample room 
back of this for vegetables and small fruits. 
Whether or not the occupants of this place keep horse and car- 
riage, the front and sides of the lot are designed without any refer- 
ence to them. 
Floral embellishment is a prominent feature of this design, and 
this is nearly all in front of the house. The walk with two street- 
entrances encloses a circle seventy-two feet in diameter, on the 
margin of which the flower-beds are arranged, leaving the interior 
of the circle in lawn, unbroken save by a large low vase for flowers 
in the centre. Most of the interest of the place being thus between 
the house and the street, where exposure to passers on the street 
might annoy the occupants in the care and enjoyment of their 
flowers and plants, it is essential that this circle should be hidden 
from the street except at the gateways. The reader already knows 
that we have no sympathy with that churlish spirit which would 
shut a pleasing picture out of sight from the sheer love of exclu- 
sive possession ; but we have respect for that repugnance which 
most persons, and especially ladies, feel against a peering curiosity 
in their domestic enjoyments ; and as the care of one’s flowers and 
trees is one of the sweetest of domestic labors, we would protect 
the privacy of working hours among them to an extent that may 
not degenerate into a selfish exclusiveness. In this plan, as en- 
graved, the mass of screening foliage is not as large as would be 
necessary, but the trees as there placed will form a sufficient pro- 
tection after ten years growth to insure a reasonable privacy for the 
floral lawn. It will be observed that this is not effected by a 
