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cline, at the summit of which, directly in front, may be seen the Gothic gables of the mansion house. On the left the path is bordered by a well-trimmed hedge of privet, merging, as a side path across the lawn appears, into a thickset border of osage-orange, three or four feet high, over which is seen, placed in becoming locations, various groups of shrubbery; the spirea, the hazel and the hawthorne can be detected, and numbers of stately and well-pruned trees commingle with the lower growths so as to altogether form a most pleasing prospect for the eye. A beautiful liquidamber and a singularly well-shaped English linden stand close within the hedge, each probably forty feet in height; while far across the lawn, which extends as far as the eye can reach, is detected, embowered by larches, a rockery tastefully covered with the tendrils of trumpet vine and Virginia creeper, which, each in its proper season, enliven the landscape with its gorgeous colors.

On the right, after passing the stream, a rarely beautiful wooded glade is found -a sunny stretch of lawn, bare of trees itself, surrounded on three sides by primeval forest and sloping gently down towards the creek below, while above rises the leafy foliage of an almost precipitous steep. Pursuing the journey along the main road, we come to a parting of the ways, and for convenience of description will turn to the left, noting at the fork, as a landmark, a "William Penn Milestone," with the Proprietary's coat-of-arms on one side and the figure 5 on the reverse, formerly standing on the Old Haverford Road, where it was placed in 1703.

Before us now is a very steep climb, and at the summit, to the left, stands the house, low, surrounded on three sides by broad piazzas, and forming, by a wing to the north, the latest addition, now nearly 40 years old, a tasteful PorteCochere. As we step up on the porch our first sensation is one of surprise, first, to see what an outlook is had in front, and next, that behind the house the ground still continues to rise, so that, in spite of the already great elevation, the house is yet in a sheltered nook of the hills.

Before, nothing limits the horizon but trees, with an occasional glimpse over their tops of a sunny hill miles away, on which the grazing cows can hardly be distinguished. At our feet lies a smoothly shaven plot of grass, level for twenty or thirty feet, where it is terraced to a gravel walk; and the eye, following this walk in front of the house and toward the south, sees it curve gracefully around under some wondrously large and ancient box-trees to enter a sunny flower garden, to which attention will be drawn later.

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couple of hundred yards, bare of trees in the centre, down to a second terrace, on the margin of which, in the centre of the prospect, grows a large and vigorous smoke-tree, banked behind with purple lilacs. To its left two stately upright junipers guard a flight of grass steps down the terrace, while to the right a similar flight is indicated by two immense globe arbor vitæ bushes. This portion of the lawn is, on the side by the road, walled in, as it were, by a rockery, somewhat similar to that descried after first crossing the stream at the foot of the hill; but this one is overgrown with a spreading Japanese yew. tween the yew and the junipers is a large weeping beech, and nearer to the house stands, the pride of all beholders, a magnificent tulip tree. Seldom can such a specimen be seen; standing apart from other trees it has had the opportunity, unlike the same tree when crowded in forests, to spread its noble branches far and wide. Its topmost twigs tower far above all surrounding foliage, and its trunk, fair, straight and strong, bids fair in time to exceed in girth any tree on the place. There is another great tulip tree, much larger and older than this, standing on the farm land, the girth of whose trunk, three feet above the ground, is twenty-four feet and eight inches. The lower branches are each two feet in diameter as they leave the trunk, and the spread of foliage is nearly fifty feet to each side of the trunk, the height of the whole tree being probably not less than one hundred feet. This tree is of immense age, and has a hollow trunk; but that near the house, before described, should have a hundred years or more of life before it yet, and gives promise of excelling in rugged beauty and in size its brother of the distant meadow land. Its circumference is now eleven feet.

To the right of this sunny piece of lawn stands a group of Norway spruces, on the terrace, and quite close to the house a singularly shapely clump of Kentucky coffee trees, their delicately formed, pale green branches springing up from the midst of the grove of box which was observed before as shading the turn in the gravel walk.

Let us now wander into the flower garden, to the south of the house: Here are seen the terraced walks cut in Mr. Cruickshank's time. There rise three terraces above us, the space between each being occupied by beds of strawberries, currants, etc., while a border for both beds and the intervening grass walks is formed by rows of oldfashioned flowers, with an occasional fruit tree, among which the paw paw is not forgotten. The topmost terrace-each is about three feet highabuts against a long and high stone wall, but so thickly overgrown is it with ivies that scarcely a

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