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PLANS OF RESIDENCES 
and pleasure walks that can quickly be made interesting. In 
connection with the double exit porch we have drawn buildings 
for hired men, including workshops and tool-rooms of the same 
width, under a roof supposed to be a continuation of the pavilion- 
structure on Mr. Smith’s lot. Many persons who employ men- 
servants object to lodging them in their residences. As rooms 
for them may be provided more cheaply in connection with the 
building of this tunnel porch than if built separately, we have 
introduced them ; but they are not essential to the plan. 
We will now sketch the general features of the planting for the 
first described lot back of the alley. It must be borne in mind, to 
begin with, that this lot, loo x 185 feet, is a small area upon which 
to place all the structures and gardenesque embellishments that the 
ground-plan indicates ; and being surrounded by a high wall or 
fence to insure its absolute seclusion, its lawn-surface will be still 
further lessened by the belts of trees and shrubs that must be planted 
inside the walls to relieve their monotony. This limited area can 
be planted so as to avoid inelegant crowding only by a selection of 
trees of secondary size, and a very judicious choice of shrubs. 
But when such walled grounds are successfully treated, there is 
an expression of smigness and elegant privacy about them that the 
ladies are apt to speak of as “delicious.” Those who have passed 
through dark houses on some of the narrow streets of old Paris, 
and emerged suddenl}’- in great gardens behind them, which one 
could hardly imagine there was vacant room for within a mile of 
the place ; or those who have been equally surprised and delighted 
with the brilliant gardens behind the dismal street-walls of Spanish 
American cities, can appreciate fully how charming such grounds 
as these may be made, and how the mere novelty of such a tunnel- 
entrance to a walled garden will give it a special charm. 
We have not hitherto called attention to the path from the 
kitchen (under the dining-room) directly to and across the alley, 
to the carriage-house and stable. Between this path and the exit- 
porch of the tunnel, the space is to be filled with a pine tree and a 
dense growth of hemlocks, and an impervious screen of the latter is 
to be continued along the right-hand side of the path issuing from 
the tunnel j — to be grown to a height that will conceal the stable 
