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kills. The smiling, gently varied lawn is studded with 
groups and masses of fine forest and ornamental trees, be- 
neath which are walks leading in easy curves to rustic 
seats, and summer houses placed in secluded spots, or to 
openings affording most lovely prospects. (See Frontis- 
piece). In various situations near the house and upon the 
lawn, sculptured vases of Maltese stone are also disposed in 
such a manner as to give a refined and classic air to the 
grounds. 
As a 'pendant to this graceful landscape, there is within 
the grounds scenery of an opposite character, equally wild 
and picturesque — a fine, bold stream, fringed with woody 
banks, and dashing over several rocky cascades, thirty or forty 
feet in height, and falling, altogether, a hundred feet in half 
a mile. (See view, Sect, vm.) There are also, within the 
grounds, a pretty gardener’s lodge, in the rural cottage style, 
and a new entrance lodge by the gate, in the bracketted 
mode ; in short, we can recall no place of moderate extent, 
where nature, and tasteful art, are both so prodigal of beauty, 
and so harmonious in effect. 
Montgomery Place is directly south of Blithewood. It 
is remarkable for its rich masses of wood, with dark and 
shadowy walks of great length and variety, the interest of 
which is heightened by numerous, tasteful rustic seats, 
arbours, and root-houses. Near the house are a stately 
Conservatory and flower-garden, and the views from the 
lawn are rich and extensive. This place is the seat of Mrs. 
Edward Livingston, and like the neighbouring one of J. R. 
Livingston, Esq., abounds in magnificent single trees, 
groups, masses, and rolling woods, disposed in the modern 
style over an extensive rolling surface, having much the 
air of an old European residence. 
