I should like to see a proper definition of the term " Landscape Gardening." There certainly can be no fixed rule about it. Many ingenious and many absurd books, have been written on this subject. The best American Landscape work is that of Downing, and the best short essays which I have seen, have appeared in this paper. A professor of landscape gardening should have rare natural qualities. He should first be a devoted, an enthusiastic lover of nature in all her works of earth, rocks, water, and trees. He should possess an enlarged capacity for discrimination, combination, and arrangement. He should well understand the features of a piece of ground, and its capabilities; and, added to all these, he should be a man of fine natural taste, and that taste highly cultivated by observation and travel. Any body can ditch a piece of low land fill up a hole, or dig down a hill or a bank. But it takes a man of mind to catch the salient points of view from a given piece of ground, and to displace the trees and shrubbery from the intercepting angles, or to cover the bald spots between with the proper shade and foliage.

Trees, Trees, Trees! They are the poetry, the beauty, the grandeur - the repose, the features of a country place. They are the greatest attraction; and properly distributed, and selected, in variety and keeping with the topographical - this word don't sound well here - character of the surface, waters, and distant views will come 'in of themselves-Never employ an empiric in landscape gardening to do your work, if you want it well done. You might as well engage a " pretender" to invade, and establish himself successfully on the throne of Old England, as to suppose that your charlatan landscape gardener, can make a " thing of beauty," by the aid of triangles and trapezoids.