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LANDSCAPE GARDENING. 
in this, we believe, Mr. Smith, who is the great autho* 
pity at Newport on trees, coincides, that in making an 
evergreen screen from the sea, the Scotch and Austrian 
pines should be placed outside, Siberian ( Thuja War- 
reand) Arbor vitse, and Pinus cembra next, with per- 
haps the Common Red cedar ; and among deciduous 
trees, nothing succeeds better than Acer pseudo-jola- 
tanus and Platanus orientalis (the Eastern plane). 
Upon the Hudson, the most marked place which has 
been created since the first edition of this book, is Rock- 
wood , the residence of Edwin Bartlett, Esq., near Tarry- 
town. The house (Fig. 97), is truly a princely mansion, 
with a fagade of nearly or quite one hundred and fifty feet, 
and with its internal arrangements and decorations, we 
should say, quite the most complete establishment in 
the United States. The estate itself consists of several 
hundred acres, very cleverly planted with park-like 
effect ; and the approach, which is quite a long one, so 
judiciously managed, that it conveys the idea of a very 
large place, and gives a stranger the most agreeable 
impression of the house, at the first appearance, when 
emerging from a ravine or passage between two rocky 
eminences. 
The views from the house and the plateau or terrace 
around it, are very superb, and unrivaled, we think, 
upon the Hudson River. 
Very extensive green-houses and conservatories have 
been erected under the supervision of Mr. Luchars, a 
builder of great experience ; and we do not see why, 
in a few years, with the taste and liberality of expendi- 
ture on the part of the proprietor, Rockwood will not 
be the, or certainly one of the most distinguished 
country-seats in America. 
With regard to Hyde Park (Mr. Langdon’s), Ellerslie 
(Mr. Kelly’s), Montgomery Place (Mrs. Livingston’s), 
and Annandale (Late Blithewood), Mr. Bard’s, which we 
have always considered the four great places in this 
