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and artistical harmony, and beauty. Mr. Perkins has just 

 rebuilt the house, in the style of a French maison de cam- 

 pagne ; and Pine Bank is now adorned with a most 

 complete residence in the latest continental taste, from 

 the designs of M. Lemoulnier. 



On the other side of the lake is the cottage of Thomas 

 Lee, Esq. Enthusiastically fond of botany, and gardening 

 in all its departments, Mr. Lee has here formed a residence 

 of as much variety and interest as we ever saw in so 

 moderate a compass about 20 acres. It is, indeed, not 

 only a most instructive place to the amateur of landscape 

 gardening, but to the naturalist and lover of plants. Every 

 shrub seems placed precisely in the soil and aspect it likes 

 best, and native and foreign Rhododendrons, Kalmias, and 

 other rare shrubs, are seen here in the finest condition. 

 There is a great deal of variety in the surface here, and 

 while the lawn-front of the house has a polished and 

 graceful air, one or two other portions are quite picturesque. 

 Near the entrance gate is an English oak, only fourteen 

 years planted, now forty feet high. 



The whole of this neighborhood of Brookline is a kind 

 of landscape garden, and there is nothing in America, of 

 the sort, so inexpressibly charming as the lanes which lead 

 from one cottage, or villa, to another. No animals are 

 allowed to run at large, and the open gates, with tempting 

 vistas and glimpses under the pendent boughs, give it quite 

 an Arcadian air of rural freedom and enjoyment. These 

 lanes are clothed with a profusion of trees and wild shrub- 

 bery, often almost to the carriage tracks, and curve and 

 wind about, in a manner quite bewildering to the stranger 

 who attempts to thread them alone ; and there are more 

 hints here for the lover of the picturesque in lanes, than 



