HISTORICAL NOTICES. 
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style of laying out grounds, combined with a scientific 
arrangement of plants, which excited public curiosity, and 
contributed not a little to the dissemination of a taste for 
the natural 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 improved, but furnished the plants and 
trees necessary to carry out his designs. Several plans 
were prepared by him for residences of note in the South- 
ern 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 geome- 
tric style of laying out grounds. In short, we consider M 
Parmentier’s labors and examples 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 especially to record here the celebrated seats of 
Chancellor Livingston, Wm. Hamilton, Esq., Theodore 
Lyman, Esq., and Judge Peters. 
Woodlands , the seat of the Hamilton family, near 
