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444 LANDSCAPE GARDENING. 



in Plate III., was then built, having among other fine 

 features, a hall of 54 x 18 feet running through it ; on 

 one side, the fine extent of simple and dignified lawn, 

 and on the other side is a French parterre or architec- 

 tural garden (Plate IY.) with fountains, bordered by 

 heavy balustrades, surmounted at intervals by vases, 

 with steps leading through a series of terraces to the 

 lake, a fine sheet of water of about a mile in extent, 

 having a peculiarly varied and beautiful outline. Prom 

 this French parterre, stretches off on the right the 

 ornamental or English pleasure-grounds, a part of the 

 same view, showing the summer-house very artist- 

 ically rusticated, with colored glass windows, pro- 

 ducing very curious effects of contrast by the stained 

 glass. 



From this we pass along the lake to the Italian garden, 

 of which we have given a view in Plate Y., and which 

 is the most successful, if not the only one as yet in 

 the country. The effect, especially by moonlight, of 

 the lake seen through the balustrades of the parapet, 

 and among the vases and statues which surmount it 

 with the splashing of the fountain, and the very unique 

 features, at least in this country, of the formally clipped 

 trees and topiary work, quite lead us to suppose w^e 

 are on the lake of Como. 



To Mr. Hunnewell, we believe, is due the merit of 

 having first attempted to clip our white pine, and the 

 result shows that it bears the shears quite as well as the 

 hemlock or yew ; though in the garden are equally 

 successful specimens of clipped Norways, balsams, arbor 

 vitse, the English maple, the beech and Scotch firs. 



From the Italian garden we cross the avenue into a 

 wood, through which winds a walk planted on either 

 side with a very extensive and satisfactory pinetum, 

 containing all the rarest and newest conifers and ever- 

 green shrubs, and which with the slight protection from 

 the winter's sun, seem to thrive exceedingly well. 



