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 annuals | about 3 acres |
| Nursery | 1³⁄₄ ” |
| Balance made up of lawn, partly hand-mown among trees and partly horse-mown, with considerable areas in trees with undergrowth | 17¹⁄₄ ” |
Rate per year = 2¹⁄₂ acres per man.
(A little teaming extra.)
Class III
In this class the labor upkeep for the year consists of the equivalent of one man per year for 6-18 acres. It comprises such areas as described under (b) and (c) on [page 7], examples being the general woodlands of the Garden and the North Meadow. There are about 265 acres of this class in the Garden.
A Municipal Park, of a simple kind, consisting of tree and shrub plantations, and large areas of meadow or lawn roughly mown.
Area, 103 acres.
Maintenance costs
| Labor per acre per year | $127.45 |
| Supplies and teaming per acre per year | 60.06 |
| $187.51 |
Rate per year = 9.04 acres per man.