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of land, but containing more that is interesting than many 

 places of ten times the extent. Mr. Smith is a most zealous 

 amateur horticulturist, and a great lover of plants and trees, 

 and every foot of his small garden is filled with some inter- 

 esting plant or valuable tree. It contains both a fruit garden 

 and flower garden, with a grapery and greenhouse, and is yet 

 so divided by arborvitae hedges and trees, as to render each 

 complete in itself. 



The house stands near the street, and the garden extends 

 back and in the rear of the next lot adjoining. Descending 

 from the piazza at the back of the house we enter the flower 

 garden, which is hedged in on both sides, the hedge being 

 in the shape of a half oval, the end towards the extremity of 

 the lot. This is planted with herbaceous plants, roses, 

 shrubs, trees, annuals, and bulbs. In the rear of this is 

 another flower garden, the beds being cut out of turf, and 

 on the side is the fruit garden and the grapery. The 

 first garden has a trellis for grapes in the centre, and on 

 each side are parallel beds for trees, shrubs, and flowers ; in 

 the open spaces bulbs are set out in autumn, and taken up 

 in summer, and their places filled with annuals. Mr, Smith 

 is a great admirer of the Coniferae, and has taken great 

 pains to introduce many of the rare kinds, and prove them. 

 He has kindly promised us a list of all that he considers 

 adapted to the climate of Newport. The following we saw 

 in fine condition after the severe winter of 1854 and 1855 : 

 /uniperus ericoides, very pretty ; /uniperus prostrata ; Thuja 

 filiformis, perfectly hardy here, 3 feet high ; J.^bies Men- 

 ziesn ; Araucaria imbricata ; Mount Atlas cedar ; Cunning- 

 hamm lanceolata, very fine, and quite hardy ; Juniperus 

 chinensis, one of the best species. Of other trees and shrubs 

 scattered here and there we saw Sambucus fasciniata, a fine 

 cut-leaved shrub ; the Purple berberry ; Ruscus aculeatus ; 

 Magnolia Soulangeana, a fine specimen, 10 feet high. The 

 M. purpurea, fine ; the Dwarf English Walnut, 10 feet high, 

 and bearing fruit ; a Bignonm radicans major, running over a 

 pole 12 feet high, was covered with its large trumpet-shaped 

 corols. English yews, Irish yews, and the Chinese arborvitae 



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