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PLANS OF RESIDENCES 
tree r, in the garden, is an Irish juniper, which is so slender that 
its shade is not likely to injure the grape vines. 
We have considered these grounds too small to introduce any 
trees, not even fruit trees; but of small fruits the garden may have 
a good supply. 
Plate XV.—There being no bed-room projection on the side 
of the house, the lawn is seven feet wider than on the preceding 
design. The house being a city basement plan, with a high porch, 
the entrance is designed with more architectural completeness. 
The street margin of the lot is supposed to stand twenty-one 
inches above the level of the sidewalk, with a stone w T all all 
around, the coping of which is to have its upper side level with 
the lawn next to it, and to be surmounted by a low iron fence. 
The front porch (designed for iron) is approached by three stone 
steps on the street line, landing on a stone platform 4x6. The 
side walls of the steps to the porch form vase pedestals. The 
walk to the basement is fourteen inches below the level of the 
lawn, and seven inches above the street sidewalk. At the angles 
of the basement area wall, the copings are squared for the recep¬ 
tion of vases. The rear walk, from the side street, rises by two 
steps on the street line, so that it will be below the level of the 
lawn for ten or fifteen feet from the gate. The ground should rise 
about one foot from the fence to the house. 
For the benefit of readers not very familiar with the study of 
house-plans, some explanation may be necessary to an understand¬ 
ing of the back-stair arrangement on this plan, which will be 
found quite simple and convenient. The dining-room being in 
the basement, broad stairs lead down to it from the main hall. 
Servants may come up these stairs from the basement, and go 
into the second story by the back stairs from the passage (which 
also opens into the library-room) without entering the hall or 
the living-rooms of the main floor. If it is considered essential 
to have a direct communication between the bed-room and the 
basement, a private stairway may be made from the closet, under 
the back stairway. 
The library is to have a glazed door (glazed low) to enter the 
