The ornamental trees used in planting this place were the scarlet maple, the Norway maple, the scarlet horse-chestnut, the yellow horse-chestnut, or buckeye, the cut-leaved alder, the sweet chestnut, the purple beech, the common beech, the flowering ash, the larch, the Weymouth pine, the Cembra pine, and some other ornamental kinds; various kinds of poplar, the scarlet oak, the evergreen oak, and the American lime-tree. The shrubs and low trees were laurels, Portugal laurels, hollies, laurustinus, box, arbor vitae, juniper, red cedar, aucuba, alaternus, arbutus, sweet bay, laburnum, lilacs, spindle-tree, dogwood, guelder rose, garden syringa, bird cherry, snow-berry, Irish yew, and various kinds of rhododendrons, kalmias, and azaleas. Near the Burn were planted two weeping willows, a weeping elm, and a weeping ash. It is remarkable that no kind of Crataegus is mentioned in this list, though the situation appears remarkably well adapted for plants of that genus.