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Plate XIX. 
Plan for a Residence of Medium Size on a Corner Lot 150 x 200 feet , 
with no provision for keepitig a horse or carriage. 
This house-plan is the same as that on Plate XVIII, but the 
lot is only one-half the depth of that one, though the frontage is 
the same. The street on the longer side being supposed the most 
desirable to front upon, the division of the lot in lawn, fruit, and 
vegetable-garden, resembles, on a smaller scale, that of Plate 
XVII; though on this the direct walk to the front door is dis¬ 
pensed with, and only the entrances at the two front corners of the 
lot are used. This is rarely a desirable arrangement, but the ex¬ 
pression aimed at in the design of this lot is extreme openness and 
breadth of lawn, in proportion to the size of the lot. To dispense 
with a walk directly from the street to the front door increases this 
expression, but it is not essential to it. If the members of the 
family who occupy the house rarely use a carriage, it is not a 
matter of much importance to have a direct front walk; especially 
if all the travel to and from the house is along the street, so that 
one corner gate or the other makes a nearer approach than a walk 
in the centre only. But if the family have often occasion to ride, 
the side-entrances will seem an awkward detour; and we would 
then by all means dispense with the walk which runs nearly 
parallel with the street, and have a broad straight walk to the 
front porch, and a smaller walk to the rear of the house, nearly 
as here represented.. .This would, of course, involve considerable 
changes in the plan for planting. 
An alley is supposed to bound the lot on the left; a shed and 
cow-house* and small cow-yard are therefore represented in the 
rear corner on that side, and an arbor-vitae hedge is to be planted 
inside the fence along the alley. Ten feet from the alley, and 
* The grass from the lawn, on such a place as this, if fed as cut, is more than enough to supply 
one cow with green food for seven months of the yearprobably, together with the pail-feed from 
the house, enough to keep two cows. 
