18 SUBURBAN GARDENS 
requirements; which means that twenty-five 
feet or thereabouts must be given up in front 
of the dwelling — more perhaps, if the build- 
ing units are deeper and wider than fifty by 
one hundred feet. This size, however, is a 
fair average, and I have chosen it as the most 
typical plot for consideration throughout. All 
that applies to it applies equally to the larger 
areas, up to and including the quarter acre 
unit. Above this I have not considered the 
term “ suburban ” in its definite and restricted 
colloquial sense, applicable. 
Of course a farm may be, and often is, as 
truly suburban as any tiny cottage plot, but in 
its special significance the “ suburban home ” 
is the place of from two to four selling units 
or lots, each probably twenty-five by one 
hundred feet in size. It takes seventeen of 
such lots to make an acre, approximately, the 
exact size of the latter being 43,560 square 
feet — or, reduced to “ real estate ” measure- 
ments, a tract one hundred feet deep by four 
hundred and thirty-five feet and a fraction over 
seven inches long. One hundred feet by one 
hundred, or four lots, is thus not quite a 
quarter acre. 
There are two kinds of houses to choose 
between for the typical fifty by one hundred 
