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LANDSCAPE GARDENING. 
looking up the third lake, and to the snowy Alps, and 
down a perpendicular precipice of some six hundred 
feet into an exquisite flower garden below, into which, 
you are prevented from falling, by a parapet interlaced 
with every variety of honeysuckle and clematis. 
The other walk from the cavern led along a similar 
wall of rock, pierced with holes, having an occasional 
frame of rustic work, covered with air plants (orchids) 
and parasites. This led by a grand terrace, balustrated 
and statued, and commanding the three lakes to the 
palace. 
We have attempted to give our recollection of this 
wonderful spot ; not that we expect it to be a model 
for anything yet to be done in America, but because it 
is the only place we remember to have seen in any part 
of the world which we have visited where a great 
work of art has been produced in a very considerable 
degree by the forms and colors of trees. The dim and 
sombre effects of the caverns and tunnels have been 
marvelously extended and increased by the deep, dark, 
purple colors selected for this purpose, while the gay, 
graceful, sparkling spray and glitter of the fairy-like 
acacias, are so blended and interwoven with the sun- 
shine that one cannot but feel, how much even nature, 
grand as she always is, can some times be aided by 
man. There are many bold and prominent bluffs and 
promontories in this country on our beautiful and pictur- 
esque rivers and majestic lakes where much of the ar- 
tistic beauty of Bellagio can be accomplished by judi- 
cious and tasteful planting, and although we have not a 
climate which admits hedges of oleander and myrtle, at 
least at the North, yet when we know the colors, forms 
and habits of many trees which have as yet never 
been employed in ornamental landscape, we shall be 
surprised to find how much material we have for pro- 
ducing the most remarkable and the most pleasing 
results. 
