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Green Mount. The earth required to make this mount, 

 when excavated, left a place for a small lake which 

 was supplied by a running stream. Thus we have all 

 the necessary elements of a landscape picture such as 

 we find not only to-day, but also in the pictures of the 

 gardens around Pekin made long before the Christian 

 era. Travellers state that this artificial hill can be 

 seen to-day bearing the original name King-Khan, 

 meaning Green Mountain. 



These studies of two or three places at Newburgh 

 lead to the further consideration of the value of sim- 

 plicity and characteristic art in developing homes. The 

 ambition to make a showy place that indicates the 

 possession of wealth, and the ability to have what most 

 people cannot hope to obtain, or by going to great 

 expense to secure some feature in its highest develop- 

 ment because it has come to be the fashion, may not 

 always be desirable. In visiting the show places in 

 America, England, and on the continent, much as one 

 may be impressed, the feeling that finally gains the 

 upper hand is often not unlike that of Sydney Smith 

 in the following quotation : 



"I went for the first time in my life some years 

 ago to stay at a very grand and beautiful place in 

 the country where the grounds are laid out with 

 consummate taste. For the first three or four days 

 I was perfectly enchanted; it seemed something so 

 much better than nature that I really began to wish 

 the earth had been laid out according to the latest 



