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right and left of the road, at short distances, the natural 

 woods cover the ground, but scarcely a tree or shrub, the 

 whole distance to the house, had been left standing. The 

 sides of the avenue were cut away in some places and filled 

 in in others, and now a handsome row of silver maples, 

 oaks, elms, sycamores, &c., ornament it the whole length, 

 and a few years' growth will line it with verdure. Many 

 and various improvements have been carried out, and others 

 are in contemplation, but we have not time to mention them. 

 Our principal purpose now is to notice some of the plantations 

 of trees, and particularly of evergreens, to which Mr. Fay 

 has given especial attention. Every kind of pine, of which 

 there is any hope of its proving hardy, has been imported 

 from England or purchased at home, with a view to form a 

 complete collection ; and some new and rare sorts are not 

 only growing here, which were set out this spring, but others, 

 which have stood out the last severe winter, without the 

 least injury. 



The following is a list of some of the latter, with their 

 height : — 



Pinus Cembra^ 1 foot high. 



Pinus excelsa, 2 feet. This is a splendid tree. 



Picea. Pi7isdpo, 2 feet, fine. 

 ■ ^^bies Smithid?if/, 2 feet. A most elegant tree. 



Pinus sp. from the Columbia River, raised from seeds col- 

 lected by the Exploring Expedition, 3 feet. 



The Deodar cedars, of which there are several, were pro- 

 tected with pine' boughs, but having only been planted six 

 months they lost part of their tops, 



A great number of new and rare shrubs have been planted, 

 of which we shall give a list after they have stood out one 

 or two winters. 



The most important of Mr. Fay's labors has been the 

 planting of about eighteen acres of his high lands with 

 Scotch larches, upon which he set out upwards of twenty 

 thousand, at an expense not exceeding iwo dollars per acre, 

 besides the cost of the trees, which, of course, is not large, 

 for they are only three years old. When we saw them 

 they were looking well, but they have undoubtedly suffered 

 by the late drought; at the time of our visit at least four out 



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