years ago, when the writer first visited the grounds, the "White IMnes and Kod 

 31aplcs lining the carriage road, could be nearly measured by the hand; most of 

 those are now thirty feet high, and three feet in circumference, showing what, by 

 careful planting and subsequent attention, a few short years may acconijtli.sh. 

 Tiicre is here also a tine specimen of the Aracui Julihrisfiin, now in full blonsom, 

 about twenty feet high, and its trunk about thirty inches in circumference. Some 

 pdrtions of this tree always suffer in most winters, but notwithstanding, it always 

 manages to increase each season "in grace and beauty." Though when leafless, 

 it is a very unpicturesque tree, there are few more plea.sing when clothed with 

 foliage. Near this an English bird Cherry (^Cerasus padus) exists, a favorite 

 small tree of mine. Its fragrant flowers in long racemes, appear a month earlier 

 than our own pretty Wild Cherry (C. serofina'), and serve to prolong a very 

 interesting season. Those who admire dense headed, compact growing trees, will 

 be pleased with a specimen of the English Maple (^Accr cam2)cs(rt'), a very fine 

 specimen. Its gooseberrj^-like leaves, and corky bark, give it a peculiar appearance; 

 and near it is a Turkey Oak, about twenty-five feet high, and clothed with branches 

 to the ground. Amongst the old trees that have long lived here, is a remarkably 

 handsome specimen of the European Linden (^Tllia J'Juropeci), about seventy or 

 eighty feet high, with a pretty conical outline, the lower branches sweeping the 

 ground for a wide distance around. Those who have ever seen this very pretty 

 tree, or enjoyed but a short period its pleasant shade, will not readily join in the 

 annual newspaper cry of "cut away the Lindens." A young but very vigorous 

 specimen of the weeping variety of the American White Linden, (^Tilia Mirhuu.ri, 

 Nuttal), admonishes us that this beautiful tree is not near enough known or 

 appreciated. 



Amongst the younger trees, of which it is the pride of the proprietor to have a 

 specimen of each that can be obtained, I noticed as having stood the winter well 

 and making vigorous growth, Pinus ponderosa about four feet high; P. pttmi'Iio, 

 three feet; P. Uamiltoni, two feet; P. exceha,fo\XT feet; P. pinaster, ten feet 

 and bearing cones; Abies Smiihiana, three feet; A. Doiiglasii, three feet; Cedrus 

 Deodara, ten feet, making surprising growth; C. Africana, three feet; C. Lihani, 

 three feet; Picea pinsapo, assuming a spreading habit; Biota (Thuja) penduhi, 

 five feet; Taxus Dovastoni, weeping yew, three feet. M. 



