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large, broad, and spacious, in good keeping with the magni- 

 tude of the whole building. We only regret that our time 

 was too limited to give a detailed description of the interior. 

 The house is reached by a broad avenue through an arched 

 gateway of brown stone, with a neat lodge, built of the same 

 material. It is elevated on a broad terrace, and the lawn 

 gradually slopes each way towards Bellevue Avenue and the 

 seashore. Full twenty acres are, or soon will be, devoted to 

 the lawn. It is only three or four years since the house was 

 completed, and all the ground is not yet graded and planted. 

 A walk skirts the whole, with an irregular belt of trees, 

 planted rather thickly, to afford shelter from the winds, 

 which at some seasons are very prejudicial to the growth of 

 the trees. 



The garden and forcing houses occupy two or three acres 

 to the left of the house, beyond the approach, and next to the 

 stables in the rear. The grapehouse is a curvilinear structure, 

 ninety-eight feet long and twenty-four wide. The conserva- 

 tory is an octagon building, forty feet wide, wholly of glass, 

 the sides as well as roof; and between this and the grapery 

 Mr. Wetmore intends to erect a greenhouse, hothouse, (fcc, 

 which, when completed, will afford accommodation for a 

 splendid collection of plants. The grape vines in the grapery 

 were only planted a year ago, but they have made the finest 

 growth of any we ever saw, the canes being more than an 

 inch in diameter. Under the management of Mr. Doriss, 

 Mr\ Wetmore's excellent gardener, they must produce a 

 splendid crop next season. 



The newness of the place would scarcely allow us to ex- 

 amine it with a critical eye. The arrangement of the grounds 

 is in good taste, and the lawn, after it has been rolled and 

 mown a good number of times, will be a beautiful piece of 

 turf: the climate of Newport is favorable for lawns, for the 

 heavy dews that are deposited are nearly equivalent to a 

 light shower. The only thing wanted to give a finish to 

 the place is plantations of trees and shrubs, — but judiciously 

 done, — not formal clumps as we saw in many places, nor 

 spotted out here and there as Ave noticed in others, — but 



