202 LANDSCAPE GARDENING. 



It is totally different in character from the Wilderness on the ijorth, 

 and is a nearly level or slightly undulating surface, well covered with 

 fine Oak, Chestnut, and other timber trees. Through it is laid out 

 the Dkivb ; a sylvan route as agreeable for exercise in the carriage, 

 or pn horseback, -as the "Wilderness," or tbe "Morning Walk," is» 

 for a ramble on foot. It adds no small additional charm to a coun- 

 try place in the eyes of many persons, this, secluded and perfectly , 

 private drive, entirely within its own limits. 



Though MoNTGOMEBY Placb itsclf is old, yet a spirit ever new 

 directs the improvements carried on within it. Among those more 

 worthy of note, we gladly mention aa arboretum, just commenced 

 on a fine site in the pleasure-grounds, set apart apd thoroughly pre- 

 pared for the purpose. Here a scientific arrangement of all the most 

 beariitiful hardy trees arid shrubs, will interest the student, who looks 

 upon the vegetable kingdom with a more curious eye than the ordi- 

 nary observer. 



The whole extent of the pi-ivate roads and walks, within the pre- 

 cincts pi MoNTGOMEEY Place, is between five and six miles. The 

 remarkably natural beauty which it embr,aces, has been elicited and 

 heightened every where, in a tasteful and judicious manner. There 

 are numberless lessons here for the laridscape gardener ; there are 

 an hundred points that will delight the artist ; there are meditative 

 walks and a thousand suggestive aspects of nature for the poet ; an4 

 the man of the world, engaged in a feverish pursuit of its gold and 

 its glitter, may here taste something of the beauty and refinement 

 of rural life in its highest aspect, and be able afterwards understand- 

 ingly to wish that 



" One fair asyltim from th6 world Ae knew, 

 One chosen seat, that charms the various view. 

 Who boasts of more, (believe the sdi'ious strain,) 

 Sighs for a home, and sighs, alas 1 in yain^ , 

 Thro' each he roves, the tenant of a day. 

 And with the swallow wingsthe year away." 



1 ROQEES. 



