AND GROUNDS. 
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We have remarked in a preceding chapter on the impractica¬ 
bility of furnishing plans for grounds of uneven surfaces, or for 
those which have trees growing on them, without an accurate 
survey of all these features. The plans which follow, therefore, 
pre-suppose bare sites, and rather level ones ; but the study of 
arrangement on these will be found to embrace most of the ques¬ 
tions that interest those who are forming or expecting to form 
suburban homes. 
Plate I.— B. 
Plan for a Compact House and Stable on a Corner Lot 128x220 feet. 
Reference has been made to this plate in Chapter IX for 
the purpose of illustrating a mode of planning the grounds on 
paper, and working from the paper plan. The lot has an 
area of less than two-thirds of an acre. The main house is 
thirty-six feet square, with a kitchen-wing twenty-two feet wide, 
carried back under a continuous roof to form the carriage-house, 
wash-shed, and stable,—in all sixty-four feet in length. We be¬ 
lieve that it is rarely that so many of the requirements of a 
pleasant house are brought within so small an area. Doubtless 
most lady-housekeepers will rebel against the thought of having 
the carriage-house and stable in such close proximity to the 
dwelling. It is the only plan in this work thus arranged ; but in 
our north-border States we believe it to be a wise arrangement; 
not only vastly more economical in construction, and convenient 
for the family and their servants, but also, in the hands of a good 
architect, capable of adding greatly to the attractiveness of the 
house by giving it an air of extent and domesticity that so many of 
the box-like suburban houses of the day are totally wanting in. We 
do not believe there is any more need of being annoyed by flies or 
smells from a stable than from a kitchen ; and if the latter can be 
kept so that it is a pleasant room to have within ten feet of living- 
rooms, where doors open directly from one to another, we know no 
reason why the stable may not be within fifty feet, where there are 
no direct connections, and four or five intervening partitions. One 
