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are seen comfortable dwellings with cultivated fields surrounding. 

 A few only of the summits remain forest crowned. No town with- 

 in our knowledge of like population, boasts a larger number of 

 elegant dwellings. In looking out from our observatory, the view 

 is one far reaching, both up and down the valley, and it is seldom 

 surpassed. 



Not completely is our home a model, nor do we propose to pre- 

 sent it as such, and yet, having planted here the garden whose 

 green in the season has no parallel, altitude and latitude considered 

 outside of isothermal influences, we assume that the accompany- 

 ing engraving of it will be of interest to our readers. "Were the 

 hillside of gentler slope, the effect would, in the eyes of some peo- 

 ple, be a more pleasing one, and yet, such has been the effect of 

 spade, pick, hoe and rake, as to make gradation so uniform and 

 gentle in decline, as to produce a most pleasing effect. So tall and 

 symmetric are the trees crowning the summit, and so lustrous the 

 green of the garden, whether in bud, blossom or fruitage, such is 

 the scene presented as to delight all who visit us. Here in mid- 

 summer when the season proves one of ordinary fruition, will 

 doubtless be discovered a greater wealth of production than on 

 any equal space, not under glass, in America. 



Above and to the west of the house, covering an area of less 

 than two acres, trenching, fitting and planting to trees,bushes and 

 vines is complete. The trenches above do not quite flanlj the rear 

 of the lawn to the east of the house, embracing about the sixteenth 

 of an acre. The lawn is planted with trees, chiefly the sugar ma- 

 ple, grown to impressive proportions. The surface of the lawn is 

 one of the gentlest incline and were it not for injury to roots of 

 the trees trenching would be forthwith pushed to the south and 

 east, as already done to the north and west of the house, so that 

 the green of the grass at all seasons of the year might evidence 



