The art of beautifying suburban home grounds of small extentWith descriptions of the beautiful and hardy trees and shrubs grown in the United States . is house is, in size, much above the average of suburbanhomes, and the area of the lot is sufficient to harmonize with themansion-character of the house.* The arrangement of the drive-way is quite simple. The house being placed nearly in the middleof the v*-idth of the lot, and the stable, vegetable-garden, andorchard, occupying the rear third of the length of it, there is not anextent of lawn in proportion to the depth of the lot; the grounddes
The art of beautifying suburban home grounds of small extentWith descriptions of the beautiful and hardy trees and shrubs grown in the United States . is house is, in size, much above the average of suburbanhomes, and the area of the lot is sufficient to harmonize with themansion-character of the house.* The arrangement of the drive-way is quite simple. The house being placed nearly in the middleof the v*-idth of the lot, and the stable, vegetable-garden, andorchard, occupying the rear third of the length of it, there is not anextent of lawn in proportion to the depth of the lot; the grounddesign being in this respect inferior to that of Plate XI, where alot forty feet shorter has a lawn much longer. The difference ismainly in the greater extent of the orchard, the vegetable-gardenand the stable yard on the plan now under consideration ; and thedifferent positions of the mansion and the stable on the respective * The vignette at llic bead of Chapter VI is from a drawing of this house, kindly funiisheiby the architect, R. W. Buniie.!, Ejq., of Bridgeport, Conn., but the ^rounda ac there shown arenot intended to illustrate th!;3 p! AND GROUNDS. 195 lots. The design of Plate XI is for a front to the east; the houseis therefore placed near the north side of the lot, the exposures ofthe principal rooms are to the east, south, and west, and the viewsout of them are made longer and nobler by thus crowding thehouse and all its utilitarian appendages towards that side. Thepresent plan is suited to a lot having a frontage to the south, andthe plan calls for an equally good exposure for the rooms on bothsides of the house. The liberal space allowed for orchard, vegeta-ble-garden and stable-yard necessarily deprives the ground of thefine air that longer and broader stretches of unbroken lawn pro-duce ; but each of the principal rooms having exposures differingessentially from the others, the variety of views must atone for theirwant of extent. The carriage-entrances to this
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