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LANDSCAPE GARDENING. 
Cottage residence of Mrs. Camac. This is one of the 
most agreeable places, within a few miles of Philadelphia. 
The house is a picturesque cottage, in the rural gothic style, 
with very charming and appropriate pleasure grounds, com- 
prising many groups and masses of large and finely grown 
trees, interspersed with a handsome collection of shrubs and 
plants ; the whole very tastefully arranged. (Fig. 10.) The 
lawn is prettily varied in surface, and there is a conservatory 
attached to the house, in which the plants in pots are 
hidden in beds of soft green moss, and which, in its whole 
effect and management, is more tasteful and elegant than 
any plant house, connected with a dwelling, that we re- 
member to have seen. 
Stenton , near Germantown, four miles from Philadelphia 
is a fine old place, with many picturesque features. The 
farm consists of 700 acres, almost without division fences — 
admirably managed — and remarkable for its grand old 
avenue of the hemlock spruce, 110 years old, leading to a 
family cemetery, of much sylvan beauty. There is a large, 
and excellent old mansion, with paved hall, built in 1731, 
which is preserved in its original condition. This place was, 
the seat of the celebrated Logan, the friend of William Penn, 
and is now owned by his descendant, Albanus Logan. 
know nothing superior to it, and Capt. Barclay, in his agricultural tour, says it was 
the only instance of regular, scientific system of husbandry in the English man- 
ner, he saw in America. Indeed, the large, and regular fields, filled with luxuriant 
crops, every where of an exact evenness of growth, and every where free from 
weeds of any sort ; the perfect system of manuring and culture ; the simple and 
complete fences ; the fine stock ; the very spacious barns, every season newly 
whitewashed internally and externally, paved with wood, and as clean as a 
gentleman’s stable, (with stalls to fatten 90 head of cattle;) these, and the 
masterly way in which the whole is managed, both as regards culture and profit, 
render this estate one of no common interest in an agricultural, as well as ornamental 
point of view. 
