THIS residence is selected in order to show what may be effected on a very small spot by the choice of trees and shrubs of a superior description, by the distribution of green-house plants in tubs and pots, and also by combining the gardenesque with the picturesque. There is nothing remarkable in the art or taste displayed in laying out this place; that having been done before the present occupier, the Rev. Theodore Williams, had acquired a taste for botany and gardening. On the other hand, the selection of the plants grown in pots, boxes, and vases, and their disposition on the lawn; the kinds of trees and shrubs planted in the masses and groups; and the manner in which these are managed; display the greatest taste, and a degree of care and high keeping in the management, which is very rarely to be met with in either small or large gardens. To give some idea of the extent to which this high keeping is carried, we may mention that, though the whole space occupied by the garden and pleasure-ground is only about an acre and a half, yet several gardeners are kept; the head gardener, Mr. Lawrence, is a man who ranks high in his profession, and his foreman is also a very superior cultivator.
