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house fifty-five—its shorter dimension may have been 
on the building line, though I doubt it, for this would 
have made it extend beyond the house towards the 
back; but even this is thirty-five feet—then the barn, 
carriage-house, tool-house, poultry-house and all the 
rest. 
Remember that Penn especially stipulated that all 
should be uniform and not “a scu” from the house; 
and the description mentions particularly that the 
offices were “arranged alongside on the front line of 
it.” In this wonderful expanse there was only one 
break—the space occupied by the court—and here the 
row of English redheart cherry trees continued the 
line, and gave continuity to a group which must have 
conveyed a sense of comfort and rest and home quite 
without parallel. 
Which of all these is the best 1 ? Each must answer 
for himself. Designing a garden to-day along any 
one of these five lines is a simple enough task, once the 
.selection is made. That selection, as I have tried to 
show, is the crucial thing; and altogether a personal 
matter. Some of the considerations which might in¬ 
fluence it, outside of personal taste—indeed, which 
should influence it, regardless of personal taste—are, 
first of all, the system of buildings to be erected, or al¬ 
ready erected. I speak of them as a system because 
that is what they were in old times, distinctly; and in 
