58 LANDSCAPE GARDENING. 



much higher than the mansion. These trees were planted 

 by Mr. Sheaff twenty-two years ago, and were then so 

 small, that they were brought by him from Philadelphia, 

 at various times, in his carriage — a circumstance highly 

 encouraging to despairing planters, when we reflect how 

 comparatively slow growing is this tree. This whole es- 

 tate is a striking example of science, skill, and taste, 

 applied to a country seat, and there are few in the Union, 

 taken as a whole, superior to it.* 



Cottage residence of Mrs. Camac. This is one of the 

 most agreeable places within a few miles of Philadelphia. 

 The house is a picturesque cottage, in the rural gothic 

 style, with very charming and appropriate pleasure grounds, 

 comprising many groups and masses of large and finely 

 grown trees, interspersed with a handsome collection of 

 shrubs and plants; the whole very tastefully arranged. 

 (Fig. 13.) The lawn is prettily varied in surface, and 

 there is a conservatory attached to the house, in which the 

 plants in pots are hidden in beds of soft green moss, and 

 which, in its whole effect and management, is more tasteful 

 and elegant than any plant house, connected with a dwell- 

 ing, that we remember to have seen. 



» The farm is 300 acres in extent, and, in the time of De Witt Clinton, was 

 pronounced by him the model farm of the United States. At the present time 

 we know nothing superior to it ; and Capt. Barclay, in his agricultural tour, says 

 It was the only instance of regular, scientific system of husbandry in the Eng- 

 lish manner, he saw in America. Indeed, the large and regular fields, filled 

 with luxuriant crops, everywhere of an exact evenness of growth, and every- 

 where free from weeds of any sort ; the perfect system of manuring and cul- 

 ture ; the simple and complete fences ; the fine stock ; the very spacious bams, 

 every season newly whitewashed internally and externally, paved with wood, 

 and as clean as a gentleman's stable (with stalls to fatten 90 head of cattle) ; 

 these, and the masteriy way in which the whole is managed, both as regards 

 culture and profit, render this estate one of no common interest in an agricul- 

 tural, as well as ornamental point of view. 



