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year that the increase is checked and the birds which 

 would naturally nest in the vicinity of houses, are driven to 

 other places of safety. 



On the fifteen acre space termed " the house lot" the trees 

 have become of ample size for shade and are gradually 

 reaching the condition of complete protection against the 

 searching winds which at certain seasons of the year sweep 

 over the region, and it is now Mr. Appleton's intention, 

 beginning with the opening of the next spring, to experi- 

 ment farther " by planting some of the choicer kinds of trees, 

 etc." 



The committee also visited the estate of Mr. Henry Sal- 

 tonstall in response to a special invitation received through 

 Mr. Appleton, and as the conditions of soil and situation 

 are precisely like those of the estate reported on which it 

 joins on the eastward, and as Mr. Salstonstall's place has 

 been brought to its present state of beauty by an entirely 

 different treatment, necessitated by the difference in the 

 original condition of the land, reference to it seems desirable 

 as illustrating another method of improvement of our county 

 lands. 



The estate, some two or more generations ago, was prob- 

 ably cut over and a sucker growth of oaks together with 

 young hickories and some other treee.s sprung up to succeed 

 the original timber. To-day the house is in the centre of 

 a park like group of trees where ample openings give free 

 access for air and glimpses of the lake and enough sun- 

 light is admitted to produce the greenest of turf which ex- 

 tends to the verandas of the house itself. 



I>y a wise policy Mr. Salstonstall has become owner of 

 the wooded slope of the opposite lake shore and the pictur- 

 esque and heavily wooded island which makes up the middle 

 ground of the picture. No landscape architect has ever 

 been employed — none could add a single improvement — and 

 the result is a retired, restful, yet perfectly cheerful country 

 home and illustrates the very best method of treatment of 

 land already covered with a natural growth of trees where 



