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LANDSCAPE GARDENING. 
five miles in length, the rich native woods, and the long 
vistas of planted avenues, added to its fine water view, 
rendered this a noble place. The mansion, the green- 
houses, and the gardens, show something of the French 
taste in design, which Mr. Livingston’s residence abroad, 
at the time when that mode was popular, no doubt, led 
him to adopt. The finest yellow locusts in America are 
now standing in the pleasure-grounds here, and the 
gardens contain many specimens of fruit trees, the first of 
their sorts introduced into the Union. 
Waltham House, about nine miles from Boston, was, 25 
years ago, one of the oldest and finest places, as regards 
Landscape Gardening. Its owner, the late Hon. T. 
Lyman, was a highly-accomplished man, and the grounds 
at Waltham House bear witness to a refined and elegant 
taste in rural improvement. A fine level park, a mile in 
length, enriched with groups of English limes, elms, and 
oaks, and rich masses of native wood, watered by a fine 
stream and stocked with deer, were the leading features 
of the place at that time; and this, and Woodlands, were 
the two best specimens of the modern style, as Judge 
Peters’ seat, Lemon Hill, and Clermont, were of the an- 
cient style, in the earliest period of the history of Land- 
scape Gardening among us. 
There is no part of the Union where the taste in Land- 
scape Gardening is so far advanced, as on the middle por- 
tion of the Hudson. The natural scenery is of the finest 
character, and places but a mile or two apart often 
possess, from the constantly varying forms of the water, 
shores, and distant hills, widely different kinds of home 
landscape and distant view. Standing in the grounds of 
some of the finest of these seats, the eye beholds only the 
