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LANDSCAPE GARDENING. 
as much variety and interest -as we ever saw in so moderate 
a compass — about 20 acres. It is, indeed, not only a most 
instructive place to the amateur of landscape gardening, but 
to the naturalist and lover of plants. Every shrub seems 
placed precisely in the soil and aspect it likes best, and 
native and foreign Rhododendrons, Kalmias, and other rare 
shrubs, are seen here in the finest condition. There is a 
great deal of variety in the surface here, and while the lawn- 
front of the house has a polished and graceful air, one or 
two other portions are quite picturesque. Near the entrance 
gate is an English oak, only fourteen years planted, now 
forty feet high. 
The whole of this neighbourhood of Brookline is a kind 
of landscape garden, and there is nothing in America, of the 
sort, so inexpressibly charming as the lanes which lead 
from one cottage, or villa, to another. No animals are 
allowed to run at large, and the open gates, with tempting 
vistas and glimpses under the pendant boughs, give it quite 
an Arcadian air of rural freedom and enjoyment. These 
lanes are clothed with a profusion of trees and wild shrub- 
bery, often almost to the carriage tracks, and curve and wind 
about, in a manner quite bewildering to the stranger who 
attempts to thread them alone ; and there are more hints 
here for the lover of the picturesque in lanes, than we ever 
saw assembled together in so small a compass. 
In the environs of New-Bedford are many beautiful 
residences. Among these, we desire particularly to notice 
the residence of James Arnold , Esq. There is scarcely a 
place in New-England, where the 'pleasure-grounds are so 
artistically laid out, so full of variety, and in such perfect 
order and keeping, as at this charming spot ; and its winding 
walks, open bits of lawn, shrubs and plants grouped on turf, 
