552 LANDSCAPE GAEDENING. 



in this, we believe, Mr. Smith, who is the great autho- 

 rity at Newport on trees, coincides, that in making an 

 evergreen screen from the sea, the Scotch and Austrian 

 pines should be placed outside, Siberian {Thvja War- 

 reana) Arbor vitse, and Pinus cembra next, with per- 

 haps the Common Eed cedar ; and among deciduous 

 trees, nothing succeeds better than Acer pseudo-^la- 

 tanus and Platanus orientalis (the Eastern plane). 



Upon the Hudson, the most marked place which has 

 been created since the first edition of this book, \% Rock- 

 wood, the residence of Edwin Bartlett, Esq., near Tarry- 

 town. The house (Fig. 97), is truly a princely mansion, 

 with a fagade of nearly or quite one hundred and fifty feet, 

 and with its internal arrangements and decorations, we 

 should say, quite the most complete establishment- in 

 the United States. The estate itself consists of several 

 hundred acres, very cleverly planted with park-like 

 effect ; and the approach, which is quite a long ;one, so 

 judieioiisly managed, that it conveys the idea of a very 

 large place, and gives a stranger the most agreeable 

 impression of the house, at the first appearance, when 

 emerging from a ravine or passage between two rocky 

 eminences. 



The views from the house and the plateau or terrace 

 around it, are very superb, and unrivalled, we think, 

 upon the Hudson Eiver. 



Very extensive green-houses and conservatories have 

 been erected under the supervision of Mr. Luchars, a 

 builder of great experience ; and we do not see why, 

 in a few years, with the tastfe and liberality of expendi- 

 ture on the part of the proprietor, Eockwood will not 

 be the, or certainly one of the most distinguished 

 country-seats in America. 



With regard to Hyde Park (Mr. Langdon's), Ellerslie 

 (Mr. Kelly's), Montgomery Place (Mrs. Livingston's), 

 and Annandale (late Blithewood), Mr. Bard's, which we 

 have always considered the four great places in this 



