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grounds were not yet laid out around it ; but it will be one 

 of the finest cottages of the kind. 



From the gardener's cottage, returning towards the house 

 in the rear of the garden, we reach the barn and outbuildings, 

 and descend again to the edge of the pond, where Mr. Hun- 

 newell has a building in which there is a steam engine for 

 pumping water from the pond up into an immense reservoir 

 over part of the barn, which supplies the house and grounds 

 through pipes laid in the earth. It also enables him to grind 

 all his corn, which is a great saving, where the distance to 

 mill is considerable, and there are a large number of cattle and 

 horses kept the year round. All the arrangements are complete 

 throughout, and have been carried out in a manner that reflects 

 the highest credit upon Mr. Hunnewell for his liberality and 

 good taste. 



We noticed, in different parts of the grounds, many species 

 of our common white pine, clipped into conical heads, show- 

 ing that it bears the shears nearly or quite as well as the arbor 

 vitas. Though Ave cannot say we admire the formal character 

 of such trees, and think the pine altogether too beautiful to 

 be thus shorn of its natural growth, still, for geometric gardens, 

 and particular places where everything is artificial, Mr. Hun- 

 newell's practice shows that the white pine may be enumer- 

 ated among the evergreen trees that may be planted for 

 hedges or screens. 



We have not space to enumerate the many beautiful trees 

 distributed through the grounds, or to speak of their fine 

 growth, the result of only four years' planting, and on a soil 

 not over rich. By the aid of an immense peat swamp, conven- 

 iently located, and from whence thousands of loads have 

 been dug out and distributed over his place, Mr. Hunnewell 

 has been enabled to deepen and em'ich his soil, and obtain a 

 growth which many naturally deeper and more fertile situa- 

 tions have failed to supply. Manure is not easily to be had, 

 but guano furnishes, and at a cheaper rate, all its elements,^ 

 and it has been liberally used with the greatest success. All 

 who would like to see how much can be done by an enthu- 

 siastic planter, in the short space of four years, should visit 

 Mr. Hunnewell's residence. 



