Ny KiO VISITS TO COUNTRY PLACES. 



specimens of trees, but we took no notes bcrc of a short walk in the i>lautation3 

 now fairly grown into " woods." 



./. Prt'scott HdlVs iilacc, some distance above Newport, is a good c.\ani])k' of 

 successful farming and of opcn-hoartcd hospitality. Here stands the original 

 Uulfuin rear-tree, in full vigor, though it has seen many a blast, and has twice 

 been repaired with cement in its old body. Mr. II. has begun to jjlant, and 

 already his screens promise jjrotection. 



Alfred Smith, an enthusiast in new Evergreens and other horticultural matters, 

 resides in Newport, and was an esteemed correspondent of Downing's. His garden 

 possesses a great variety of the newer trees and shrubbery ; a visit to it will be a 

 treat. 



Our fellow-citizen, General Cadwallader, is making great progress in laying out 

 one of the finest sites for building in all this region. It is near the sea, on the 

 south shore, at Cogger-shall's Point, and commands very fine views. The ])lant- 

 ing and levelling has been in progress for several seasons. Mrs. Cadwallader 

 takes great interest in this work, and her taste is eminently successful. Ere long, 

 the Newport visitor will no doubt see a stately mansion rise to ornament this 

 superb situation. 



WilUnm S. Wetmnre has one of the largest and most costly mansions in New- 

 port, built of Fall River granite. It is situated in the " Neck," on the road to 

 General Cadwallader's. Mr. Wetmore has about forty acres, very large and well 

 constructed graperies, conservatories, &c. lie has a fine view of the ocean. 



Mr. George Calvert has a cottage with about three acres, which he has made 

 the most of by judicious planting. His literary tastes, and tlic vicinity of Mr. 

 Bancroft, are not to be forgotten in any notice of Newport society — a residence 

 among which is of course rendered more agreeable by a knowledge of the fami- 

 lies of the habitues of the place. 



At Newport, especially at Edward King, Esq.'s, are fine specimens of Cembran 

 Pine, twelve to fifteen feet in height; a slow-growing tree, when young, but one 

 of the most ornamental. Also, very fine specimens of the different varieties of 

 evergreens, Oak, Purple Beach, and the difl'erent Junipers. 



In front of the Redwood Library, we noticed the finest specimen, probably, in 

 America, of the Fern-leaved Beech, fifteen or twenty feet in height, which we 

 hope those who read this sketch, and visit Newport thereafter, will not fail to 

 remark. A speciality of the place is the great produce, and the beauty of the 

 Quince-trees ; they attain a size, and bear fruit of a quality, nowhere else realized 

 in our observation ; in fact, they remind us of the finest Orange-trees in their 

 greenness and luxuriance. 



Before concluding, we may observe that Mr. Kane has planted some three 

 hundred R^hododendrons, quite large; they are employed as "under growth," 

 and are to be cut down when they become too tall ; he has tried this method, and 

 finds it to be the only way to get well furnished, stocky plants. In fact, he thinks 

 if the Spruces, Pines, and most of the Evergreens, were headed in, they would 

 be much improved, by being more compact ; the soil at Beachclyffe is so rich, 

 and the warm, moist climate, so favorable to these trees, is of so forcing a charac- 

 ter, that nearly everything grows too quickly, or, rather, too tall and slender. 

 We shall watch the progress of these places with much interest. 

 No sketches "Around is'ewport" can be complete without mentioning the capi- 

 tal fishing that is to be enjoyed here, both from boat and shore. We are con- 

 stantly reminded, by a wish to throw in a sketch of character here, and a hint of 

 some elegance now and then, that we are encased in a kind of armor which forbids 

 the use of one's natural taste for accounts of conversations, or the introduction of 



