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Horticulturist, the Chevalier Parmentier, Mayor of Enghien, 

 Holland. He emigrated to this country about the year 

 1824 — and in the Horticultural Nurseries which he esta- 

 blished at Brooklyn, he gave a specimen of the natural style 

 of laying out grounds, combined with a scientific arrange- 

 ment of plants, which excited public curiosity, and contri- 

 buted not a little to the dissemination of a taste for the na- 

 tural mode of landscape gardening. 



During M. Parmentier's residence on Long Island, he was 

 almost constantly applied to for plans for laying oct the 

 grounds of country seats, by persons in various parts of the 

 union, as well as in the immediate proximity of New- York. 

 In many cases he not only surveyed the demesne to be im- 

 proved, but furnished the plants and trees necessary to carry 

 out his plans. Several plans were prepared by him for re- 

 sidences of note in the Southern States ; and two or three 

 places in Upper Canada, especially near Montreal, were, we 

 believe, laid out by his own hands and stocked from his 

 nursery grounds. In his periodical catalogue, he arranged 

 the hardy trees and shrubs that flourish in this latitude in 

 classes, according to their height, &c., and published a short 

 treatise on the superior claims of the natural, over the formal 

 or geometric style of laying out grounds. In short, we con- 

 sider M. Parmentier's labours and example as having effected, 

 directly, far more for Landscape Gardening in America, than 

 those of any other individual whatever. «- 



To the novice in Landscape Gardening and Rural Em- 

 bellishment, nothing is more instructive than a personal in- 

 spection of country seats, where the grounds are laid out in 

 a tasteful manner. In examining such, the mind is at a 

 single view more fully impressed with the beauties of the art 

 and its capabilities, than by ten times the amount of time 



