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LANDSCAPE GARDENING. 
horticulturist, the Chevalier Parmentier, Mayor of Enghien, 
Holland. He emigrated to this country about the year 
1824, and in the Horticultural Nurseries which -he esta- 
blished at Brooklyn, he gave a specimen of the natural style 
of laying out grounds, combined with a scientific arrange- 
ment of plants, which excited public curiosity, and contri- 
buted not a little, to the dissemination of a taste for the na- 
tural mode of landscape gardening. 
During M. Parmentier’s residence on Long Island, he was 
almost constantly applied to for plans for laying out the 
grounds of country seats, by persons in various parts of the 
Union, as well as in the immediate proximity of New- York. 
In many cases he not only surveyed the demesne to be im- 
proved, but furnished the plants and trees necessary to carry 
out his designs. Several plans were prepared by him for re- 
sidences of note in the Southern States ; and two or three 
places in Upper Canada, especially near Montreal, were, we 
believe, laid out by his own hands and stocked from his 
nursery grounds. In his periodical catalogue, he arranged 
the hardy trees and shrubs that flourish in this latitude in 
classes, according to their height, etc., and published a short 
treatise on the superior claims of the natural, over the formal 
or geometric style of laying out grounds. In short we con- 
sider M. Parmentier’s labours and example as having effected, 
directly, far more for landscape gardening in America, than 
those of any other individual whatever. 
The introduction of tasteful gardening in this country is, 
of course, of a very recent date. But so long ago as from 
25 to 50 years, there were several country residences highly 
remarkable for extent, elegance of arrangement, and the 
highest order and keeping. Among these, we desire espe- 
cially, to record here the celebrated seats of Chancellor Liv- 
