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adjoining place for the fine open lawn that is in view from the bow- 
window ; but as the finest rooms of the house on lot 2 are equally 
dependent on the outlook across lot i for their pleasing views, it 
is not to be supposed that the occupants of either would wish to 
interrupt the advantageous exchange. The extreme openness of 
lawn on the front of both places, and the almost total absence of 
shrubbery on the front of No. i, is for the purpose of giving a gener- 
ous air to both, and to maintain all the advantages of reciprocity. 
It would be quite natural to suppose that No. i, which is an old 
place remodelled, had once had its front yard filled full of shrubs 
and trees, and that in the formation of the new lawn in the rear the 
shrubbery was mostly removed to make the lawn more open, and 
to stock the groups of the new plantation ; and then that the 
flower-beds were planned to relieve its plainness, without obstruct- 
ing the neighbor’s views, as shrubs and trees might. 
The house on lot No. 2 is 40 x 44 feet, with a kitchen-wing 
18 X 24. Having the main entrance on the side, the carriage-way 
passes the door, on the way to the stable, without unnecessary detour ; 
and the best rooms of the house occupy the entire front. The house 
is considerably smaller than that on lot No. i, though all its rooms 
are of ample size ; the difference between the houses being in the ' 
stately parlor and bed-room on the first floor, which the house on 
lot No. I has, and the other has not. The sitting-room and parlor 
of the latter, however, opening together by sliding doors, will be 
fully equal in effect to the single parlor in the former plan ; and, in 
proportion to its size, the latter seems to us the best house-plan. 
The details of the planting on both places we can follow no 
further than the plate indicates them, without drawings on a larger 
scale to refer to. The fronts are simple and open to a degree that 
may be unsatisfactory to many persons— especially near the street- 
front of the corner lot ; but as that lot is supposed to be richly 
embellished with shrubbery in the pleasure-ground back of the 
carriage-entrance, we believe the marked simplicity of the front will 
tend to make the new portion of the place more interesting by the 
contrast which its plainness presents to the profusion of sylvan and 
floral embellishments of the pleasure-ground proper. 
