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dotted line), thus receiving a more favorable impression of the 
extent and beauty of the ground than if the gate-entrance were 
directly in front of the front door, this location of the gateway 
naturally suggests a side approach to the porch. But a porch of 
this form is of itself desirable in such a location, by permitting a 
heavy mass of shrubs to be planted directly in its front, leaving the 
lawn in front unbroken, and making the porch appear more distant 
and retired from the street than it would were the steps and walk 
directly in front of it, in the usual mode. It also makes a con¬ 
venient front-entrance to the basement at the side of the parlor 
bay-window. 
The grounds of this group of places are quite simple in the 
style of planting; yet, if laid out as here indicated, the materials 
properly chosen and well kept, they would be noticeable for their 
elegance. The necessarily small scale on which these groups of 
houses and lots are planned, makes it impracticable to describe 
them in detail, especially with reference to the selections of shrubs 
and trees. 
Plate XXIV. 
Four Residences , occupying the end of a Block two hundred feet in 
width , on Lots one himdred and fifty feet deep , and representing 
widely different forms of Houses and Lots. 
We will here suppose that the two lots on the left, each sixty 
feet front, were first purchased and improved; and the next twenty- 
five feet were then purchased by some one who cared little for 
grounds, and wished merely to provide himself a good town-house ; 
and then the remaining fifty-five feet of the block by some one who 
could afford a larger style of improvement, including a carriage- 
house and stable. Also, that numbers one and two having built 
their house-fronts about forty feet from the street, purchaser num¬ 
ber three has the good taste to put his front on the same line ; but 
number four having a much longer house is obliged to crowd 
forward of the line a little. It is pleasant to observe how, in this 
group of utterly unlike houses, the peculiarity of each adds to the 
