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country, we can only refer our readers to Mr. Downing’s 
remarks about them in the first portion of this volume. 
While the hand of time has even still more mellowed 
their beauties by those touches and effects which 
Nature alone can produce with years, yet even here the 
hand of man has not been idle. 
At Annandale and Hyde Park, extensive ranges of 
glass have replaced the old ones of previous owners,* 
while at Montgomery Place and Ellerslie the most 
showy and superb conservatories and green-houses have 
been erected. 
At Montgomery Place also, there has been planted 
within the past ten years, the most complete and satis- 
factory arboretum in the United States. Neither pains 
or expense have been spared in obtaining the most entire 
and thorough collection, or in the peculiar and appro- 
priate preparation of soil for the reception of the 
different varieties. 
In the neighborhood of Phinebeck, is “ Wyndclyffe,” 
the residence of Miss Jones, a very successful and dis- 
tinctive house, with much the appearance of some of 
the smaller Scotch castles. This place is still quite 
new, but the situation is one of great beauty, upon a 
bold, projecting point of land, in admirable harmony 
with the style of the house, and with the most extensive 
and superb views. 
Immediately above Hyde Park, is the fine house of 
Mr. Curtis, one of the most expensive and costly upon 
the Hudson, possessing very much the same extended 
views of river and mountain as at Hyde Park. 
Roseneath — the residence of C. M. Wolcott, Esq., 
in our own immediate neighborhood, is the creation of 
the past few years, and we are very much indebted to 
it for a great many advantages to our own place, which 
* At Hyde Park, a very graceful and elegant house of the composite order, 
designed and built by Platt, of New York, and with a facade of one hundred 
and fifty feet, has within a few years, replaced the hospitable old mansion of 
the late Dr. Hosack. 
