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average and every-day practice,— not the usual or 
uncommon—are selected as being of moderate cost 
and built for men of moderate habit of life; as being, 
in fine, average houses under average conditions. 
They are all of the country or suburban type 
the city house, except where its grounds are large, 
being designed under such restriction and limitation 
of site as to make this inquiry usually uninteresting. 
They are all by plan alone, since their appearance 
has nothing to do with the present consideration of 
this subject. 
The first, Figs. I and 2, are respectively the grounds 
and plan of a house built just beyond the northern 
limits of the city of New York. 
Upon the top and part way down the southern 
slope of a hill which juts into a valley as a point juts 
into a broad river, stood an old orchard. The farm, 
of which the orchard was a part, had ceased to be 
of use; but the orchard still bore fruit, and the resi¬ 
dent farmer farmer and caretaker in one tilled 
only such portion of the land as his needs required; 
the rest lying fallow and waiting the march of events. 
From the edge of the hill toward the south, by reason 
of the hills inset into the valley, the valley’s length 
spread out, with wooded heights on either hand and, 
at its extreme end, some ten miles away and at the 
horizon’s level, was traced the many arches of a 
bridge, the High Bridge across the Harlem. From 
this orchard, to the west, could be seen the heights 
of the Palisades; and to the east, the silver ribbon 
of the Sound and the green hills of Long Island. 1 o 
the north, behind the orchard, the land lay high and 
