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low the houses has a common treatment. 
The landscape architect can do his share 
in tying the group together with consistent 
and appropriate planting. And above all, 
the trees have been enabled to remain by 
such careful treatment of a lot. 
The interior photographs of some of 
the houses appear illustrating this article. 
They are rather interesting because they 
show Mr. Keen’s ability to carry out the 
keynote of exterior design within the 
house. And they help to show that the 
similarity has not been obtained by shap¬ 
ing over the same pattern. One will no¬ 
tice that the interiors are not at all on the 
same last. 
There are some very pertinent sugges¬ 
tions to be obtained from this little group 
of houses. Those who are fortunate 
enough to plan with relatives or with inti¬ 
mate friends really can achieve consider¬ 
able in economy and in attractiveness of 
effect. First, in regard to appearance. 
As in the photographs shown, there need 
be none of the constant warring of de¬ 
signs, colors and forms that is so tiresome 
in American suburbs where distinction is 
considered to lie only in doing something 
different. What is more, skilful planning 
and landscape work can make such a com¬ 
mon plot look and feel ever so much 
larger than were it treated with three dif¬ 
ferent motives. Just as Mr. Keen’s treat¬ 
ment insured a better effect for a similar 
quantity of ground, others can find that 
a co-operative effort will do likewise. 
Another thing of interest is that the 
boundaries themselves and the restricted 
arrangements of individual work make 
for considerable waste. If the spaces of 
three service entrances, three drying 
grounds, three sets of hedges and paths 
and walks are given up to a common one 
of these elements, there will be a great 
saving of land. And why not make such 
an arrangement? It is neither religion nor 
law that one day of the week be washing 
day the country over, and it would be a 
simple matter to arrange the use of a 
common drying yard. A main service en¬ 
trance off from the entrances to the 
homes, can, with a spur to each house, 
solve a rather difficult problem with most 
houses, turning over to attractive uses 
land commonly esthetically fallow. And 
the architect working along these ideas 
can better conceal the objectionable fea¬ 
tures of the place and produce larger, more 
attractive open spaces; he is able to make 
the whole estate more' private from public 
view. 
Not only does this idea apply to a more 
generous playground and a real landscape 
for each house, but there are other ideas 
of economy which may be applied—the 
garden, for instance, might be treated in 
community fashion, as it was in old Anglo- 
Saxon days. If a common plot were se¬ 
lected with the idea of best taking advan¬ 
tage of sun and light and protection, it 
could provide more space for three indi¬ 
viduals than were they each to place his 
own little vegetable bed within the limits 
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