24 LANDSCAPE GARDENING. 



noble garniture, and the proportions of meadow, or lawn and 

 wood, as well as the arrangement and situation of the latter, 

 have been so judiciously managed, that, as we before mention- 

 ed, much of the effect of the finest park, carefully laid out, and 

 planted in the modern style of landscape gardening is pro- 

 duced, mainly by retaining and preserving the materials of 

 which nature has here been so extremely prodigal. 



The gardens and grounds of Lemon Hill, once the resi- 

 dence of H. Pratt, Esq. near Philadelphia, are familiar exam- 

 ples to many of our readers, of the geometric style. These 

 gardens, when in their perfection, some ten years ago, were 

 filled with a collection of the rarest and most costly exotics' 

 as well as a great variety of fine native trees and shrubs, 

 which interspersed with statues and busts, ponds, jets d'eau^ 

 and waterworks of various descriptions, produced certainly, 

 a very brilliant, though decidedly artificial effect. An ex- 

 tensive range of hot-houses, curious grottoes and spring- 

 houses, as well as every other gardenesque structure, gave 

 variety and interest to this celebrated spot, which we regret 

 the rapidly extending growth and the mania for improvement, 

 there as in some of our other cities, has now nearly destroyed 

 and obliterated. 



The garden of the Van Rensselaer Manor, near Albany, 

 may be given as another specimen, on a large scale, of the 

 geometric mode of gardening. 



In the suburbs of Boston, a far greater number of elegant 

 country seats of moderate extent are to be found, than in any 

 other equally small neighbourhood in the Union. Many of 

 these are no doubt familiar to our readers. Among the most 

 celebrated are those of J. P. Gushing, Esq. at Watertown, the 

 Hon. John Lowell at Roxbury, and Col. Perkins at Brookline. 

 These, with many other beautiful villa residences of less ex- 



