ARRANGEMENT IN PLANTING. 
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The accompanying plan, adapted from Loudon, gives a good 
illustration of the observance of the second rule. The plan repre¬ 
sents the part of a lot in the rear of the dwelling, all of which is 
devoted to lawn and decorative planting ; the entrance-front being 
close to the street. The plantation is supposed to be entirely 
secluded from the street and from contiguous properties by walls. 
The space covered is about 150 x 300 feet. The dotted lines 
radiating from the bow-window show the apparently loose, but 
really well studied distribution of groups of trees and shrubs in 
radiating lines. On the right, one of these groups forms a screen 
of shrubbery to divide the lawn from the elaborate flower-garden 
which forms the distinctive feature of the view from the dining¬ 
room window. Oij smaller lots the first part of the second rule 
cannot be illustrated with so much effect, but a general conformity 
to it may be observed in many of our larger plans. 
Plate II represents a lot one hundred and fifty feet front by 
two hundred and fifty deep, where the house is placed much nearer 
the front of the lot, and nearly in the centre. So placed, the long¬ 
est views over its lawn cannot be obtained from the house in any 
direction, but from many points in the front street, and within the 
grounds, the lines of view are as long and unbroken as the size of 
the lot will admit of; while a partial privacy is given to the space 
between the bay-windows and the side street, by a close plantation 
of hedge and shrubbery. Openness, rather than privacy, is the 
characteristic of this plan, however, and its best views are obtained 
on entering or passing it. Yet the lawn, as seen from the bay- 
windows, will be broken by shrubs and trees into a much greater 
variety of views than a careless examination of the plan would lead 
one to suppose. From o, at the intersection of the two streets, 
the eye ranges between two near groups of shrubbery, which frame 
the view over the lawn to the bay-windows ; and on the right, in 
front of the back veranda, between slender conical trees, a flower¬ 
bed and a pyramid of roses, under the shade of fruit trees in the 
back yard, to the carriage-house front:—a distance equal to the 
entire length of the lot. From the point marked 2, the view 
changes ; the croquet-ground, and the intervening compact shrubs 
and flower-beds, and an evergreen group at g, come into view. 
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