188 
PLANS OF RESIDENCES 
justice to the pleasing effects of such plantations. Photographic 
views occasionally give exquisite effects of parts of embellished 
grounds, but even these fail to convey a correct impression of the 
accessories of the central point of view. It is quite certain that a 
place planted (and well kept) in the manner indicated by this plate 
and description, will be far prettier than any picture of it that can 
be engraved. 
Plates XIV and XV. 
Two Methods of Planting a small Corner Lot. 
In these two plates we desire to illustrate two modes of treat¬ 
ing a village corner lot of fifty feet front, where the small depth of 
the lot, or other circumstances, requires the house to be placed 
quite near the front street. The house plans resemble each other 
in form, though it will be seen that the one on Plate XIV is set 
but five steps above the level of the ground, and has its kitchen 
and dining-room on the main floor, while the plan on Plate XV 
is a city basement house, with kitchen and dining-room under the 
bed-room and parlor, the main floor being raised ten steps above 
the street. The two ground plans (by which we mean plans of 
the grounds) differ essentially in this, that the first has one side- 
wall of the house directly on the street, so as to throw its narrow 
strip of lawn, and embellishments, on the inside of the lot, away 
from the side-street; while on Plate XV the entire length of the 
house on that side is supposed to be a party-wall, as if it were 
part of a block, or one of a pair of houses. 
Ground Plan of Plate XIV.—The veranda front is but 
eight feet from the street. Unless the approach-steps are of a 
character less plain than those shown on the plan, little can be 
done to decorate this narrow space. The veranda can be covered 
with vines, and a strip three feet wide in front of it may be de¬ 
voted to choice flowers; but we would advise to have nothing 
there but the vines and the lawn. On each side the steps we 
would plant either the tree-box, the golden yew, the golden arbor- 
