I do not undertake to make plans providing for all contingencies and under which my occasional advice will be unnecessary to the attainment of the general result intended.

For small places my practice is to charge $100 for preliminary examination and advice. If what I advise is in a general way acceptable and it is desired [185]

that I should go further I undertake a general guidance of the work to be done. I furnish necessary drawings and make visits as I find necessary until the character of the place is sufficiently established. I select and buy trees & other materials if this is necessary. Commonly, half a dozen visits are necessary in the course of two or three years. Usually for such service my charge is somewhere from $200 to $400. In such a case as Miss Appletons probably $200, plus travelling expenses; something depending on her local resources.

It is much harder to realize a simple, modest lady-like and convenient idea of a place than to carry out elaborate, showy and costly plans.

Yours Very Truly,