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LANDSCAPE GARDENING. 
Within a few years, there has been very visible im- 
provement in the style and character of the marine 
residences in the neighborhood of Boston. 
At Lynn, and on what is called the Beverley shore, 
are the marine villas of Mr. Prescott, Mr. Curtis, Mr. 
Lawrence, Mr. Jasigi, Mr. J. D. Bates, Mr. Loring, and 
the late Mr. Dexter — all more or less distinguished 
by the excellence of their houses, and with most 
charming views. 
Newport, having become, of late years, a very 
desirable place of residence for people of fortune, 
abounds, like the neighborhood of Boston, in very taste- 
ful and agreeable villas and cottages, with prettily 
arranged and well kept grounds, the most successful 
of which, taking grounds with house, is Beachclyffe , the 
residence of Delaney Kane, Esq. Mr. Kane’s house, a 
very fine one, is in the style of the French chateaux, 
with extensive views both inland and seaward, and his 
lawn is quite as successful as any we know in this 
country. The place is about twenty acres, and very 
charmingly planted with a great variety of the most 
valuable trees. We think the growth of certain varie- 
ties unsurpassed in any place we have ever seen ; 
and there is a luxuriance of habit and depth of color in 
the masses which form his boundary plantations, which 
is truly remarkable. 
Mr. Kane had a great advantage over many of his 
Newport neighbors, in finding quite a number of well- 
grown horse-chestnuts, and other ornamental trees, 
which he has contrived to work, wfith much good taste, 
into his own plantations. The gate-lodge here is quite 
a little gem in its way. 
Malbone Place . — The residence of Mr. J. Prescott 
Hall is a fine house of red or rather brown freestone, 
commanding an extensive view of Narragansett bay, and 
surrounded by some most extraordinary Red cedars, of 
great antiquity, but with their heads, so flattened and 
