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single picture. Similar effects are obtained on entering the verdant 
gateway arch at E, on lot 5 ; and also from the side-streets at the 
points B and C. The shorter views, from the porches and best 
windows of each house, are all made vastly more pleasing than 
would be possible on a single lot. The vignette of Chapter IV is 
a suppositional view from the porch (A) of the house-plan 2, look¬ 
ing towards B. 
From the front street, the in-look between the groups that border 
the front, is such as to make each place when opposite to it, appear 
to be the most important one. 
Only shrubs, or shrubby trees, are to be admitted on the fronts; 
but on the sides, between the houses, cherry and pear trees may be 
planted. The flower-beds are all shown somewhat larger on these 
plans than they should be. 
The selections of shrubs, and their arrangement in the many 
groups adjacent to the front street, will require a thorough famili¬ 
arity with the characteristics of shrubs, and should therefore be done 
by an experienced gardener. Our plate is drawn on too small a 
scale to enable us to designate in detail the composition of all the 
groups and single specimens indicated on the plan, and as such 
groups of places must of necessity, at first, be all arranged under 
the direction of one gardener, it is not desirable that we should 
make a suppositional list of shrubs and trees for each lot. 
Plate XXIII. 
Three Residences occupying the end of a Block two hundred feet i?i 
width , on Lots two hundred feet deep. 
Here the end of the block is supposed to have been divided 
into four lots, each 50 x 200 feet; the middle two lots being first 
occupied by a commodious double-house, and each of the side-lots 
subsequently improved with basement-kitchen houses, of half city, 
half suburban character, and the fronts of the three places kept by 
agreement for mutual advantage. 
The house on the left the reader may recognize as similar to 
