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quently contain but half that quantity of ground ; in which standard 

 roses of all heights, and dwarfs of all sorts, are grown in the same 

 rows ; presenting, to a stranger, an inextricable mass of confusion. It 

 would be difficult to execute an order for a general good collection from 

 any one of these nurseries ; but they are so numerous, that twenty may 

 be visited, for twenty sorts of roses, with but little difficulty. I had 

 concluded that M. Laffiiy, and one or two others, whom I knew to have 

 been in our English nurseries, would have adopted, in some degree, our 

 orderly arrangement ; but they had not in the least deviated from the 

 custom of their neighbors ; and M. LafFay's little garden, of half or 

 three quarters of an acre, was as full of z'oses and confusion as any 

 that I saw." 



With the Cemetery of Pere la Chaise the author was not very 

 well pleased ; too many evergreens ai'e planted about the graves, 

 forming a dreary and gloomy mass. The cypress and the weep- 

 ing willow, the two most appropriate trees for planting in such 

 situations, are rarely seen. The same may be said of the Ceme- 

 tery at Mount Auburn ; we have been surprised to see so few 

 cypresses and weeping willows planted, while masses of arbor 

 vitse and balsam firs are scattered in profusion around many of 

 the graves. We hope the proprietors of lots will give some at- 

 tention to this, and plant more flowers and fewer trees, and those 

 appropriate to the scene. 



From the higher parts of Pere la Chaise the view of Paris is 

 said to be most beautiful. The following remarks in regard to 

 this place' we commend to the attention of every person inter- 

 ested in the cemetery of our vicinity ; they are applicable in 

 every instance : — 



" How much it is to be regretted that a finish is not given to this in- 

 teresting place by removing and thinning the overgrown and crowded 

 trees, and planting others more api3ropriate ; filling up the hollow paths, 

 and giving some of them a fresh direction ! In short, it ought to be 

 under the management of a committee of taste, rather than left to indi- 

 vidual caprice." 



How delightful and pleasing a view of the city and environs 

 of Boston might be opened, by cutting away some of the trees 

 and brushwood which surround the highest part of Mount Auburn, 

 and from where nothing can now be seen but the blue sky above. 

 In the foreground might be traced the gentle curvings of Charles 

 River, beyond and to the left of which, Cambridge, with its 

 colleges and retired residences, and, farther still, the distant city. 

 On one side would be seen the rich scenery of the highly culti- 

 vated and fertile village of Watertown, with its noble sheet of 

 water, and, on another, the adjacent towns of Brighton and New- 

 ton, with their quiet villas and picturesque landscape. Indeed, 

 we know of no spot where the surrounding country could be 

 viewed with more advantage — no place where the many stran- 

 gers who resort there during the summer season could gather a 

 more favorable opinion of the varied scenery and highly cultiva- 



