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A VISIT TO MONTGOMERY PLACE. 



derness. If there is any prettier flower- 

 garden scene than this ensemble in the coun- 

 try, we have not yet had the good fortune 

 to behold it. 



It must be an industrious sight-seer who 

 could accomplish more than we have here 

 indicated of the beauties of this residence, 

 in a day. Indeed there is enough of exer- 

 cise for the bod}', and enjoyment for the 

 senses in it, for a week. But another morn- 

 ing may be most agreeably passed in a por- 

 tion of the estate quite apart from that 

 which has met the eye from any point yet 

 examined. This is 



THE DRIVE. 



On the southern boundary is an oak 

 wood of about fifty acres. It is totally dif- 

 ferent in character from the Wilderness on 

 the north, and is a nearly level or slightly 

 undulating surface, well covered with fine 

 Oak, Chestnut, and other timber trees. 

 Through it is laid out the Drive ; a sylvan 

 route as agreeable for exercise in the car- 

 riage, or on horseback, as the "Wilderness," 

 or the " Morning Walk," is for a ramble on 

 foot. It adds no small additional charm to a 

 country place in the eyes of many persons, 

 this secluded and perfectly private drive, 

 entirely within its own limits. 



Though Montgomery Place itself is old, 

 yet a spirit ever new directs the improve- 

 ments carried on within it. Among those more 



worthy of note, we gladly mention an arho- 

 retum, just commenced on a fine site in the 

 pleasure grounds, set apart and thoroughly 

 prepared for the purpose. Here a scientific 

 arrangement of all the most beautiful hardy 

 trees and shrubs, will interest the student, 

 who looks upon the vegetable kingdom with 

 a more curious eye than the ordinary ob- 

 server. 



The whole extent of the private roads 

 and walks, within the precincts of Montgo- 

 mery Place, is between ^ue and six miles. 

 The remarkably natural beauty which it 

 embraces, has been elicited and heightened 

 everywhere, in a tasteful and judicious man- 

 ner. There are numberless lessons here for 

 the landscape gardener ; there are an hun- 

 dred points that will delight the artist ; there 

 are meditative walks and a thousand sugges- 

 tive aspects of nature for the poet ; and ihe 

 man of the world, engaged in a feverish 

 pursuit of its gold and its glitter, may here 

 taste something of the beauty and refine- 

 ment of rural life in its highest aspect, and 

 be able afterwards underslandingly to wish 

 that 



"One fair asylum from the world he knew, 

 One chosen seat, that charms with various view. 

 Who boasts of more, (believe the serious strain,) 

 Sighs for a home, and sighs, alas ! in vain. 

 Thro' each he roves, the tenant of a day. 

 And with the swallow wings the year away." 



Rogers. 



Starting buds too soon. — A correspondent 

 in the Genesee Farmer thinks he has made 

 a discovery, by the accidental breaking ofl^ 

 of the stock just above the inserted bud, 

 which caused the bud to grow immediately. 

 He will probably discover next spring that 

 the winter has totally killed the shoot, if it 

 is a peach, apricot or nectarine ; and by the 

 end of another summer, that he has gained 

 nothing in growth, if hardy like the apple. 



a few inches growth this 3'ear, rather stunt- 

 ing than accelerating the growth. 



Profits of Fruit. — P. Barky, of the Gen- 

 esee Farmer, says, that when in the gar- 

 den of Geo. Hoadley, Esq. of Cleveland, 

 the present season, the crop of a single 

 cherry tree was sold for $]0. The tree 

 was eleven years old, and not larger than 

 seven year planted trees at Rochester. 



