26 LANDSCAPE GARDENING. 



republic, yields to the possessor all that is really gratifying 

 or delightful in the overorown estates of a titled aristocracv. 



There are several other country residences, which have 

 been quite celebrated as specimens of Landscape Gardening, 

 and we regret that the limits of a single volume will not 

 permit us to refer to them in detail. Waltham House, about 

 nine miles from Boston, the seat of Theodore Lyman, Esq., 

 has an extensive park, and fine grounds. The seat of Mr. 

 Wadsworth, in the beautiful Genesee Valley, is remarkable 

 for the tasteful design exhibited in the house and grounds. 

 Monte Viedo, the residence of Daniel Wordsworth, Esq., is 

 one of the prettiest residences in Connecticut. The grounds 

 of the Count de Survilliers, at Bordentown, N. J., are remark- 

 able for their extent; and although the surface is extremely 

 flat, it has been well varied by extensive plantations. 



Of smaller villa^ residences, suburban chiefly, there are 

 great numbers springing up, almost by magic, in the borders 

 of our towns and cities. Though the possessors of these can 

 scarcely hope to introduce any thing approaching to a Land- 

 scape Garden style, in laying out their limited grounds, still 

 they may be greatly benefited by an acquaintance with the 

 beauties, and the pleasures of this species of rural embellish- 

 ment. When we are once master of the principles and aware 

 of the capabilities of an art, we are able to infuse an expression 

 of tasteful design, or an air of more correct elegance, even 

 into the most humble works, or with the most limited means. 



While we shall endeavour, in the following pages, to give 

 such a view of modern Landscape Gardening, as will enable 

 the improver to proceed with his fascinating operations in 

 embellishing the country residence, in a practical mode, based 

 upon what are now generally received as the correct princi- 

 ples of the art, we would desire the novice, after making him- 



