Class II

In this class the labor upkeep for the year consists of the equivalent of one man per year for 2-6 acres. It comprises such areas as described under (d) on [page 7], examples being the Cherry Garden, Fruticetum, and perhaps the lawn areas around the Museum. There are about 75 acres of this class in the Garden.

A Suburban Place
Design rather complex, outline of lawn very irregular.
Area 1.80 acres, composed as follows:

Buildings.18 acres
Roads and yards.13 ”
Garden (mostly vegetable).13 ”
Lawn.50 ”
Balance (trees and shrubbery with a few paths and herbaceous beds).86 ”

Maintenance costs

Labor per acre per year$512.00
Supplies and teaming per acre per year127.22
$639.22

Rate per year = 2¹⁄₄ acres per man.

Shrubbery and Lawns on a Suburban Place
Area, 30 acres.
Rate per year = 4.09 acres per man.
(A little teaming extra.)

Quasi-Suburban Country Place, excluding farm lands, including considerable macadam road about 16’ wide, mostly grass-bordered.
Landscape portion, 22 acres, composed as follows:

Grounds immediately about house, largely in turf terraces, with a few beds of annualsabout 3 acres
Nursery1³⁄₄ ”
Balance made up of lawn, partly hand-mown among trees and partly horse-mown, with considerable areas in trees with undergrowth17¹⁄₄ ”

Rate per year = 2¹⁄₂ acres per man.
(A little teaming extra.)