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LANDSCAPE GARDENING. 
of this kind of residence on the river. At Hastings, four 
or five miles south, is the agreeable seat of Robt. B. Min- 
turn, Esq. 
About twelve miles from New York, on the Sound, is 
Hunter s Island, the seat of John Hunter, Esq., a place of 
much simplicity and dignity of character. The whole 
island may be considered an extensive park carpeted with 
soft lawn, and studded with noble trees. The mansion is 
simple in its exterior, but internally, is filled with rich 
treasures of art. The seat of James Munroe, Esq., on the 
East river in this neighborhood, abounds with beautiful 
trees, and many other features of interest. 
The Cottage residence of William H. Aspinwall, Esq., on 
Staten Island, is a highly picturesque specimen of Land- 
scape Gardening. The house is in the English cottage 
style, and from its open lawn in front, the eye takes in a 
wide view of the ocean, the Narrows, and the blue hills of 
Neversink. In the rear of the cottage, the surface is 
much broken and varied, and finely wooded and planted. 
In improving this picturesque site, a nice sense of the 
charm of natural expression has been evinced ; and the 
sudden variations from smooth open surface, to wild 
wooden banks, with rocky, moss-covered flights of steps, 
strike the stranger equally with surprise and delight. A 
charming greenhouse, a knotted flower-garden, and a 
pretty, rustic moss-house, are among the interesting points 
of this spirited place. (See Fig. 7.) 
The seat of the Wadsworth family, at Geneseo, is the 
finest in the interior of the state of New York. Nothing, 
indeed, can well be more magnificent than the meadow park 
at Geneseo. It is more than a thousand acres in extent, 
lying on each side of the Genesee river, and is filled with 
thousands of the noblest oaks and elms, many of which, but 
