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Title: The art of beautifying suburban home grounds of small extent. With descriptions of the beautiful and hardy trees and shrubs grown in the United States
Year: 1881 (1880s)
Authors: Scott, Frank J. (Frank Jesup), 1828-1919
Subjects: Landscape gardening Suburban homes Trees -- United States
Publisher: New York American Book Exchange
Contributing Library: Gerstein - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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picture from the most prominent or most natural points of view.But on this plan the trees in front, and near the front of the house,when well grown, will efifectually hide it from the entrance at A,and leave but partial views open from the highway to the east sideof the house ; while from all other points along the street towardswhich it fronts, it will be completely shut off by trees. This hasbeen done for the following reason. On so large a lot it wouldsavor of selfish exclusiveness not to have the lawn open generouslyto the street. But many families have a strong desire for a con-siderable degree of privacy in their front veranda and porch. Asin this case they front to the south, not only their free use, unob-served from the street, but their comfort in the face of so muchgravelled road, requires a mass of trees to shut off too open a viewfrom the street, and to render the veranda and porch comfortablein hot weather by their cooling shadows. It being desirable for 300 ft Plate XXK.
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South w I I s Sire el AND GROUNDS. 237 these reasons to violate the usual rule, it is better to do it entirelythan by halves ; and by inviting the eye, in entering, away fromthe front to other views around the house, the latter when seen,as it can be to great advantage from the pavilion and fromseveral points in the pleasure-walk in the rear part of the lawn,will (if in itself pleasing) add the more to the attractions of thesewalks. In concluding this series of designs, we cannot forbear to callattention again to the great advantage that a neighborhood ofhomes on deep lots, with narrow fronts, has over one of equalpopulation covering an equal area in lots of less depth and morefrontage. Narrow frontages enable a community to keep up finewalks and fences in their fronts with less expense to eachowner, and thus to add the comforts of city streets to therural pleasures that await those who court them in the groundsbehind the gate. Depth of lots suggests a deep space between thehouses and

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