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LANDSCAPE GARDENING. 
in Plate III., was then built, having among other fine 
features, a hall of 54x18 feet running through it ; on 
one side, the fine extent of simple and dignified lawn, 
and on the other side is a French parterre or architec- 
tural garden (Plate IY.) with fountains, bordered by 
heavy balustrades, surmounted at intervals by vases, 
with steps leading through a series of terraces to the 
lake, a fine sheet of water of about a mile in extent, 
having a peculiarly varied and beautiful outline. From 
this French parterre, stretches off on the right the 
ornamental or English pleasure-grounds, a part of the 
same view, showing the summer-house very artist- 
ically rusticated, with colored glass windows, pro- 
ducing very curious effects of contrast by the stained 
glass. 
From this we pass along the lake to the Italian garden, 
of which we have given a view in Plate Y., and which 
is the most successful, if not the only one as yet in 
the country. The effect, especially by moonlight, of 
the lake seen through the balustrades of the parapet, 
and among the vases and statues which surmount it — 
with the splashing of the fountain, and the very unique 
features, at least in this country, of the formally clipped 
trees and topiary work, quite lead us to suppose we 
are on the lake of Como. 
To Mr. Hunnewell, we believe, is due the merit of 
having first attempted to clip our white pine, and the 
result shows that it bears the shears quite as well as the 
hemlock or yew ; though in the garden are equally 
successful specimens of clipped Horways, balsams, arbor 
vitse, the English maple, the beech and Scotch firs. 
From the Italian garden we cross the avenue into a 
wood, through which winds a walk planted on either 
side with a very extensive and satisfactory pinetum, 
containing all the rarest and newest conifers and ever- 
green shrubs, and which wdth the slight protection from 
the winter’s sun, seem to thrive exceedingly well. 
