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THE CULTIVATOR. 
Villa of Theodore Lyman, near Boston —(Fig 1 . 30.) 
watches with solicitude every evidence Of beauty and 
progress, succeeds in extracting from his tasteful grounds 
of half a dozen acres, a more intense degree of pleasure, 
than one who is only able to direct and enjoy, in a gen¬ 
eral sense, the arrangement of a vast estate.” 
The following extract contains much in little, and con¬ 
veys valuable hints to the person of taste: 
“In the case of large landed estates, its capabilities 
may be displayed to their full extent, as from fifty to five i 
hundred acres may be devoted to a park or pleasure! 
grounds. Most of its beauty, and all its charms, may, 
But these instances are the splendid few 
—with regard to more frequent cases, our 
author remarks: 
“In many parts of the Union, where 
new residences are being formed, or where 
2 >ld ones are to be improved, the grounds 
will often be found, partially, or to a con¬ 
siderable extent, clothed with belts or 
masses of wood, either previously planted, 
jr preserved from the woodman's axe. 
How easily we may turn these to advan¬ 
tage in the natural style of landscape gar¬ 
dening; and by judicious trimming when 
'oo thick, or additions when too much 
«cattered, elicit often the happiest effects 
in a magical manner! In the accompany¬ 
ing sketch, (fig. 25,) the reader will re- 
eognize a portrait of a hundred familiar 
examples, existing with us, of the places 
of persons of considerable means and in¬ 
telligence, where the house is not less mea¬ 
gre than the stiff approach leading to it, 
bordered with a formal belt of trees. The 
succeeding sketch, (fig. 26,) exhibits this 
place as improved agreeably to the princi¬ 
ples of Landscape Gardening, not only in 
the plantations, but in the house—which 
appears tastefully altered from a plain, un¬ 
meaning parallelogram, to a simple, old 
English cottage—and in the more grace¬ 
ful approach. Effects like these, are within the reach of 
very moderate means, and are peculiarly worth attention 
in this country, where so much has been partially, and 
often badly executed.” 
The following clear, judicious, and interesting remarks 
on the arrangement and grouping of trees, cannot fail to 
be useful to every person planting his own grounds: 
“The only rules which we can suggest to govern the 
planter are these: First, if a certain leading expression 
is desired in a group of trees, together with as great a va¬ 
riety as possible, such species must be chosen as harmo¬ 
nize with each other in certain leadingpoints. And, se¬ 
condly, in occasionally intermingling trees of opposite 
however, be enjoyed in ten or twenty acres, fortunately 
situated, and well treated; and Landscape Gardening in 
America, combined and working in harmony as it is with 
our fine scenery, is already beginning to give us results 
scarcely less beautiful than those produced by its finest ef¬ 
fects abroad. The lovely villa residences of our noble 
river and lake margins, when well treated—even in a few 
acres of tasteful fore-ground,—seem so entirely to appro¬ 
priate the whole adjacent landscape, and to mingle so 
sweetly in their outlines with the woods and valleys and 
shores around them, that the effects are often truly en¬ 
chanting. 5 '* 
characters, discordance may be prevented, and harmoni 
ous expression promoted,- by interposing other trees of 
an intermediate character. 
“ In the first case, suppose it is desired to form a group 
of trees, in which gracefulness must be the leading ex¬ 
pression. The willow alone would have the effect; but 
in groups, willows alone produce sameness: in order, 
therefore, to give variety, we must choose other trees 
which, while they differ from the willow in some par¬ 
ticulars, agree in others. The elm has much larger and 
darker foliage, while it has also a drooping spray; the 
weeping birch differs in its leaves, but agrees in the pen¬ 
sile flow of its branches; the common birch has few pen 
View of a Country Residence as frequently seen —(Fig. 25.) 
Vieio of the same Residence improved— (Fig. 26.) 
