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the line G, H, between thirty and forty feet from the street, an 
open line of lawn is maintained with a view to reciprocity of vistas 
with the smaller front grounds of adjoining neighbors. 
As remarked of the preceding plan, this design embraces too 
much for verbal description, and should be planted after a well- 
considered working plan. But there is one small feature to which 
we would call attention, viz.: the triangular piece between the 
entrance-road and turn-ways. This is marked to be planted with 
fir trees, to grow into a dense mass, in order to counteract as far 
as possible, by its shadows and the depth of its verdure, the bare 
exposure of the surrounding roads. The centre tree should be 
the Norway spruce, and the others surrounding it, hemlocks. 
A careful examination of the plan will, we trust, supersede the 
necessity of any further description. 
Plate XII. 
An Inside Lot one hundred feet front , and one hundred and 
sixty feet deep. 
Reference was made to this plate in descriptions of Plates VIII 
and IX, the house-plan and the lot, in form and size, being nearly 
the same ; this plan being an in-lot with no carriage-house and 
stable, and the others being corner lots with these conveniences. 
The lot here represented is supposed to have an alley on the 
rear end, and to front on the south side of an east and west 
street. This gives the bay-window front of the house a northern 
exposure. A great advantage, in the outlook from the windows, 
results from this exposure, viz.: that one sees the sunny-side of all 
the shrubbery in the front grounds, and thus has the satisfaction 
of finding his verdant pets always in a smiling humor. The 
house is sixty feet from the front street, and about the same 
depth in the rear end of the lot is devoted to the kitchen- 
garden, fruits, and cow, wood and coal-house; this part be¬ 
ing separated from the part devoted to lawn by a grape-trellis 
and border. Near the street the neighbors’ lots are supposed 
