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LANDSCAPE GARDENING. 
That garden was formed by the father of American botanists, 
John Bartram, who explored the southern and western terri- 
tories, then vast wilds, at the peril of his life, to furnish the 
savans and gardens of Europe, with the productions of the 
new world, and who commenced the living collection, 
now unequalled, of American trees, in his own garden. In 
the lower part of it stands the great Cypress , a tree of noble 
dimensions, measuring at this time 130 feet in height, and 
25 in circumference. The tree was held by Bartram’ s son, 
William, while his father assisted in planting it, ninety-nine 
years since. The elder Bartrgm at the time expressed to 
his son, the hope that the latter might live to see it a large 
tree. Long before he died (not many years since,) it had 
become the prodigy of the garden, and great numbers from 
the neighbouring city annually visit it, to admire its vast 
size, and recline beneath its ample shade. 
The foliage of the Cypress is peculiar ; for while it has a 
resemblance to the Hemlock, Yew, and other evergreen trees, 
its cheerful bright green tint, and loose airy tufts of foliage, 
give it a character of great lightness and elegance. In young 
trees, the form of the head is pyramidal or pointed; but 
when they become old, Michaux remarks, the head becomes 
widely spread, and even depressed, thus assuming a re- 
markably picturesque aspect. This is also heightened by 
the deep furrows or channels in the trunk, and the singular 
excrescences or knobs already described, which, jutting above 
the surface of the ground, give a strange ruggedness to the 
surface beneath the shadow of its branches. A single 
Cypress standing alone, like that in the Bartram Garden, is 
a grand object, uniting with the expression of great elegance 
and lightness in its foliage, that of magnificence, when we 
perceive its extraordinary height, and huge stem and branches. 
