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Among other features of this place, and accomplished 
like everything else, within seven years, are various 
vistas through different avenues planted for this pur- 
p 0se — some of purple beech, others of white pine — all 
of which will in a few years become very interesting 
and effective. 
If to the above we add the extensive and well- 
conducted vegetable and fruit gardens surrounded by 
most admirably kept hedges, an abundance of well 
trained fruit trees, peach, grape, and green-houses, 
and a steam engine for forcing water into a reservoir, 
from which distributing pipes conduct it over all the 
gardens, we shall, we think, conclude a description of 
a place almost unequaled in this country, considering 
the few years only it has existed. 
Mr. II urine well’s success has been attributable in the 
first place, to working on a plan— making no or few 
mistakes — having little or nothing to undo, and lastly, 
having the taste and ability to do everything thoroughly 
and well; always keeping up what has been done, 
so that neither tree or flower, or lawn, is ever permitted 
to flag. 
Of the two places above described as illustrating the 
two schools most common in this country, we believe 
we shall afford consolation to many beginners of naked 
places by saying that our experience is extremely ad- 
verse to all attempts of converting a wood into any 
thing ornamental. 
If two places of the same size were commenced the 
same day, by persons of equal taste, knowledge, and 
means, one a wood and the other a naked plain, at the 
end of ten years the naked plain would be the finer 
and more satisfactory. 
In the first place, if one in planting, will make their 
holes wide and deep enough, and w r ith judicious prepa- 
ration of the soil ; if instead of the ordinary three 
feet wide by two feet deep, our holes are prepared 
