our severe winters permit to be naturalized. Oaks of many kinds, walnuts, 

 maples, beeches and kindred trees mingle with the choicer foreign deciduous 

 trees and evergreens. The tupelo, one of our most beautiful forest trees, 

 also abounds, and forms clumps of great beauty in many places. 



Paths and avenues of the most solid construction have been laid out in 

 pleasing curves, each turn affording some new prospect ; and what is most 

 worthy of comment, the construction of all the walks is such, and so perfect 

 is the system of drainage, that even in the most violent rains they wash but 

 little, thus materially reducing the expense and labor of keeping them in 

 repair. From many points most lovely vistas stretch through the wood, and 

 small ponds with fountains, here and there interspersed, give new beauty to 

 spots already lovely and attractive by nature. Rustic arches covered with 

 native vines, growing with wild luxuriance, span the avenues ; and arbors 

 embowered in trailing climbers peep out at convenient points. The view 

 from the higher ground is extensive and pleasing ; we see the neighboring 

 villages, each nestling in a canopy of wood, and catch not unfrequent 

 glimpses of the distant ocean. 



The Committee cannot but feel their indebtedness to Mr. Fuller for the 

 kindness and courtesy with which he treated them, and most fully commend 

 the good taste which characterizes every part of the grounds. In his labors 

 Mr. Fuller has an able and zealous assistant in Mr. Cruikshank, the super- 

 intendent, whose judicious labors have done much to beautify Woodlawn. 



A visit to Woodlawn cannot fail to be satisfactory to all who love the 

 beauty of nature, only so far fettered by art as to enable it to shine with 

 truer loveliness ; and the growing disposition in the community at large to 

 render pleasing and attractive the resting place of the departed, while it 

 takes little from the sadness of bereavement, cannot fail to exercise a salu- 

 tary influence on the public mind. Well pleased with their visit the Com- 

 mittee left Woodlawn feeling how much taste may accomplish towards 

 making even the sad things of nature shine in lovely and attractive guise. 



A pleasant ride of about an hour, on the morning of July HOth, brought us 

 to the station at Randolph, where we found carriages in waiting to convey 

 us to the place of C. S. Holbrook, Esq., which is situated in East Randolph, 

 about two miles from the railroad. 



On reaching the house we were first attracted by the perfect neatness of 

 the grass banks and edgings ; the turf being perfectly even and of a dark 

 healthy green, and, as we afterwards found, the same neatness characterized 

 all the grass plats around the house. The part of Mr. Holbrook's estate 

 under high cultivation comprises about four acres, though much more ad- 

 joining is used for mowing and pasturage ; the soil is a stiff" clayey loam ; 

 the land sloping off" gently to the north and commanding a fine view of the 

 village of West Randolph, about four miles distant. 



The flower garden first called for the attention of the Committee ; remark- 

 able for the tasteful selection and combinations of the flowers and for the 

 well trimmed box edgings. The symmetrical manner in which the grass 

 edgings were cut attracted especially our notice ; they seemed traced upon 

 the ground as if by an artist's pencil, neat in shape, and remarkable for the 



