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Among other features of this place, and accomplished 

 like everything else, within seven years, are various 

 vistas through different avenues planted for this pur- 

 pose — some of purple beech, others of white pine — all 

 of which will in a few years become very interesting 

 and effective. 



If to the above we add the extensive and well- 

 conducted vegetable and fruit gardens surrounded by 

 most admirably kept hedges, an abundance of well 

 trained fruit trees, peach, grape, and green-houses, 

 and a steam engine for forcing water into a reservoir, 

 from which distributing pipes conduct it over all the 

 gardens, we shall, we think, conclude a description of 

 a place almost unequalled in this country, considering 

 the few years only it has existed. 



Mr. Hunnewell's success has been attributable in the 

 first place, to working on a plan — making no or few 

 mistakes — Shaving little or nothing to undo, and lastly, 

 having the taste and ability to do everything thoroughly 

 and well; always keeping up what has been done, 

 so that neither tree or flower, or lawn, is ever permitted 

 to flag. 



Of the two places above described as illustrating the 

 two schools most common in this country, we believe 

 we shall afford consolation to many beginners of naked 

 places by saying that our experience is extremely ad- 

 verse to all attempts at converting a wood into any 

 thing ornamental. 



K two places of the same size were commenced the 

 same day, by persons of equal taste, knowledge, and 

 means, one a wood and the other a naked plain, at the 

 end of ten years the naked plain would be the finer 

 and more satisfactory. 



In the first place, if one in planting, will make his 

 holes wide and deep enough, and with judicious prepa- 

 ration of the soil; if instead of the ordinary three 

 feet wide by two feet deep, our holes are prepared 



