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LANDSCAPE GARDENING. 
admired by every one who can appreciate convenience and propriety as 
ingredients in the composition of a country seat. 
Besides the terraced walks round the exterior of the platform, and 
which I omitted to notice in the right place, another walk, of equal 
width, surrounds the house, at a distance of about five feet from the 
base, the intermediate space under the windows being covered with turf, 
broken by knots of low shrubs, and little beds of violets, and other 
odoriferous flowers. 
The exterior and interior walks unite nearly opposite the northern 
angles of the house, and lead away into the pleasure-ground. The 
trees and shrubs of the latter extend about fifteen feet southward, along 
the sides of the former, thus veiling the angles of the house, and com¬ 
pletely hiding the offices from every point of view. 
At the points where the terrace-walks unite and enter the pleasure- 
ground, there are treillage entrances bespanning the walk, and extending 
ten feet on each side, covered by the finest hardy climbers ; and imme¬ 
diately opposite the middle of this treillage and pleasure-ground walk, and 
about ten feet off, there are statues, large as life, on pedestals—the one 
on the east side being that of Flora , and the other, on the west side, 
that of Ceres. The pedestals of these statues, as well as that of Time 
on the south front, are paved round, and serve as stations for green¬ 
house plants during summer. 
Proceeding from the trellised entrance on the east side, northward, 
we first pass through a close thicket of evergreen shrubs and trees: of 
the latter, a few are deciduous, but the chief are very large and lofty 
hollies. The first object which attracts attention is a light and elegant 
iron bridge, of one arch, over the carriage entrance into the back court. 
Both banks of this artificial ravine are thickly planted with evergreen 
shrubs and trees, which nearly meet over the road. The floor of the 
arch is nearly level, and sufficiently elevated above the road to admit 
the highest carriage; and its ends and abutments are sunk and con¬ 
cealed among the foliage. Advancing onward, we pass through another 
close thicket of evergreens. These thickets have a double value ; they 
not only serve to hide the offices from distant parts of the park, but 
very much enhance the value and effect of the open scenes to which 
they lead; for, soon as the last thicket is passed, we rather suddenly 
enter a most interesting open space laid out as a flower-garden. The 
west side of this open space is thickly planted with trees and shrubs, 
diminishing in height from the back, against the kitchen-garden and 
offices, to the front. The east side, next the park, is more thinly and 
irregularly planted, and apparently associating with the groups on the 
outside of the ha ! ha ! 
