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LANDSCAPE GARDENING. 
and artistical harmony, and beauty. Mr. Perkins has just 
rebuilt the house, in the style of a French maison de cam- 
pagne ; and Pine Bank is now adorned with a most 
complete residence in the latest continental taste, from 
the designs of M. Lemoulnier. 
On the other side of the lake is the cottage of Thomas 
Lee, Esq. Enthusiastically fond of botany, and gardening 
in all its departments, Mr. Lee has here formed a residence 
of as much variety and interest as we ever saw in so 
moderate a compass — about 20 acres. It is, indeed, not 
only a most instructive place to the amateur of landscape 
gardening, but to the naturalist and lover of plants. Every 
shrub seems placed precisely in the soil and aspect it likes 
best, and native and foreign Rhododendrons, Kalmias, and 
other rare shrubs, are seen here in the finest condition. 
There is a great deal of variety in the surface here, and 
while the lawn-front of the house has a polished and 
graceful air, one or two other portions are quite picturesque. 
Near the entrance gate is an English oak, only fourteen 
years planted, now forty feet high. 
The whole of this neighborhood of Brookline is a kind 
of landscape garden, and there is nothing in America, of 
the sort, so inexpressibly charming a!s the lanes which lead 
from one cottage, or villa, to another. No animals are 
allowed to run at large, and the open gates, wdth tempting 
vistas and glimpses under the pendent boughs, give it quite 
an Arcadian air of rural freedom and enjoyment. These 
lanes are clothed with a profusion of trees and wild shrub- 
bery, often almost to the carriage tracks, and curve and 
wind, about, in a manner quite bewildering to the stranger 
vho attempts to thread them alone ; and there are more 
hints here for the lover of the picturesque in lanes, than 
