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rather than pecuniary utilities, or farm conveniences. It is a suita¬ 
ble home for a family of cultivated people, with ample means, and 
rural tastes. 
The orchard which takes an important place in the preceding 
plan is here omitted, to make a more extensive lawn and a fine 
pleasure-walk. The entrance-drive is more expensive than in the 
preceding plan, and a side entrance walk is added. In dispensing 
with an orchard we have endeavored to introduce in other places 
enough fruit trees to supply the family with those kinds of fruit 
which it is most indispensable to have on one’s own place. It will 
be seen that there are four cherry trees on the north (right) side of 
the house; four pear trees along the border leading to the carriage- 
house, three more on the left-hand border of the kitchen-garden, 
and four peach trees. Some of the groups in other parts of the 
grounds may now and then include a fruit tree. Apple and pear 
trees, Siberian crabs and quinces, which harmonize well with some 
of the purely ornamental trees, may be introduced in sufficient 
numbers in this way to furnish a good supply of summer fruits. 
The north fence back of the evergreen-screen is a continuous trellis 
for hardy grapes. Grape trellises also occupy the ends of two 
divisions of the kitchen-garden back of the house. If a grape- 
house is added, it may occupy either the place indicated on the 
preceding plan, or be built with its back to the walk on the left of 
the garden, and facing the left. In this case a few of the trees 
there would be omitted, and a slight change made in the arrange¬ 
ment beyond. Raspberries can be grown in abundance on the 
border next the back fence, strawberries under the growing fruit 
trees, and currants on the walks where designated. The kitchen- 
garden is certainly small for so fine a place, being but 60 x 80 
feet, including the central-walks ; but this space, if well used for 
those things only which can be better grown than bought, will 
produce a greater amount of vegetables than many persons sup¬ 
pose ; and in addition to this space permanently dedicated to such 
things, room will be found for many years on the borders and 
among the young trees of a plantation to grow many vegetables 
which are by no means unsightly. In fact, such plants as beets, 
carrots, parsnips, cabbages, and sea-kale, all of which have foliage 
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