318 : HOUSE AND SURROUNDINGS. 
can be shipped, at one movement to New York. Turpentine 
does -not ioe in sufficient quantity from this variety of the 
pine to be protitably collected, and for lumber it is of very 
small value. 
. “My. W.’s house was an old family mansion, which he 
had himself remodeled in the Grecian style, and furnished 
with a large wooden portico. An oak forest had originally 
occupied the ground where it stood; but this having been 
cleared and the soil worn out in cultivation by the previous. 
proprietors, pine woods now surrounded it in every direction ; 
a square of a few acres only being kept clear immediately 
about it. A number of the old oaks still stood in the rear 
THE PLANTER’S HOME. 
of the house, and, until Mr. W. commenced his improvements, 
there had been some in its front. These, however, he had 
cut away, as interfering with the symmetry of his grounds, 
and in place of them had ailanthus trees in parallel rows. 
“On three sides of the outer part of the cleared square 
there was a row of large and comfortable-looking negro 
quarters, stables, tobacco-houses, and other offices, built of 
logs. Mr. W. was one of the few large planters, of his 
vicinity, who still made the culture of tobacco their principal 
