PARK AND CEMETERY. 
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Persons having land about their houses or hav- 
ing procured land upon which to establish a home, 
no matter how limited the area, should carefully 
study its subdivision and furnishing with a view to 
making it quite as much a part of the home as are 
the rooms of the house itself. 
Such a study should when possible be taken up 
well in advance of construction, for the possibility 
of devising a well balanced and consistent plan that 
will give the most convenience and pleasure to each 
member of the family will often depend upon the 
position of the house, its rooms and its exits. 
On the average flat and rectangular town lot 
50 ft. by 150 ft., a house 25 ft. by 30 ft., with an 
eyes of those looking out from the rooms of the 
house. 
On such a lot, the house should be and is ordin- 
arily planned with the hall and kitchen on the north 
or west side and the living rooms on the south or 
east. It should be located well to the north or west 
of the lot in order to give a maximum of open space 
on the sunny living side. 
The grounds should be divided into a working 
section, and a pleasure and living section, each 
having independent means of access. 
The first would comprise the kitchen and laun- 
dry yard connecting with the kitchen and cellar of 
the house, and separated from other parts of the 
ground by a vine covered lattice or wire fence, 
rather than a hedge, through which access would 
be given by a gate to an intermediate section to be 
used for growing vegetables and cut flowers or for 
a playground. 
Adjoining this on the sunny side would be a 
ell 20 ft. by 25 ft., is placed near the centre or at 
one side with the front line corresponding with that 
of the houses on the street. 
The surface of the lot is evenly graded and 
grassed, and there may be a number of trees planted 
in it any one of which will grow so large as to seri- 
ously interfere with the free passage of air and light 
and shade out cultivated shrubs, flowers and grass; 
there may also be, usually in the centre of a grass 
plot, one or more beds filled with a few varieties 
of tender plants which are not at their best until 
midsummer, are killed by the first heavy frost, and 
must be yearly renewed. 
The front yard is open to the gaze of all that 
pass, the back yard is given up wholly to the laun- 
dry and other kitchen uses, there is little or noth- 
ing in the grounds to invite or even suggest out-of- 
door rest and recreation or to rest and refresh the 
flower or terrace garden, made easily accessible 
from the house. This should be distinctly an out- 
door apartment of the home, in which to sit orlunch 
during pleasant days and evenings. Connection 
would be made from this through a gate with the 
family entrance walk. If there should not be room 
for such a garden in this position it may be in the 
place of the vegetable and cut flower garden. 
The front lawn with the planting upon it, and 
the vines trained on the house, give the structure 
its setting from the street. This lawn should be a 
broad stretch of turf broken only by the necessary 
service and family entrances, by a fringe of shrubs 
and vines at the house and extended to screen the 
terrace flower garden from the road, a small grow- 
ing tree or two and a few shrubs; but with no side 
boundary plantations, if it be the established custom 
on the street to keep open front lawns and no fences. 
