The readers of the Horticulturist will remember that mention was made in this journal, a few months ago, of certain contemplated improvements in the grounds pertaining to Hamilton College, at Clinton, N. Y. Some progress has been made in this work, though it is far from being completed. Our time and labor, hitherto, have been expended chiefly in removing unsightly incumbrances, in grading and draining the soil, in planting hedges, and laying out roads and walks. This foundation-work being now finished, and something having been done in the way of planting trees and shrubs, we feel justified in making a brief report of our operations to those interested in such matters, and in presenting an engraved plan of our grounds. We do this by way of acknowledgement to those who have aided us in this enterprise, and in the hope of encouraging others who are engaged in similar labors.

Let us now turn to the annexed plan. We will suppose the reader to be, for the time, our visitor. On arriving at the middle entrance, K, on the south side of the Park, let us drive along the carriage-road a few rods distant from the front of the College buildings. This avenue, you will observe, is bordered on each side with a wire fence, and a hedge of Buckthorn. On the left, we have a near view of the South Col- Observatory, E. If we stop at this last named edifice, and acsend the tower, we shall behold a landscape of great variety and beauty. Not far from the base of this building, the hill slopes gently down to the valley of the Oriskany. Yonder, several miles to the north, this valley unites with the Mohawk, from which you see the mist rising. Looking still further, in the same direction, among the blue hills near Rome, you discover a storm raging; while at the east, the Trenton hills, some twenty miles off, are bathed in sunshine. At the south and west, you see other hills and plains, not wanting in interest and beauty.

Before leaving this fine post of observation, whether of the heavens above or the earth beneath, let us appoint another visit here, a year hence, when, the new telescope (the first large instrument of the kind ever made in this country,) being mounted, and a transit instrument and clock obtained, we shall be able to entertain you longer and better at this point in our grounds.

Passing now in a south-westerly course, in the rear of the Colleges, we come to the doubtless find much to interest us. Returning by another road to the Observatory, we catch a glimpse of the mansion in which the late President Davis spent the evening of his life. At the north-eastern extremity of the Park we approach the brow of the hill on which the Colleges stand. The Oriskany creek sweeps around near the foot of this hill, now hidden among groups of trees, now sparkling in the sun, and filling the air with a pleasant murmur. Turning our steps southward, we will pause a short time at the College Cemetery, which we enter at I. This could not well be introduced into our published plan, and we will, therefore, only say of it here that both this and the avenue leading to it are planted with evergreens and various drooping trees appropriate to such places. Several monuments have already been erected Over honored and precious dust, and we are confident that taste and affection will continue to render this spot increasingly beautiful.

As we proceed again, in a southwesterly direction, we obtain, at one point, a broad view of Clinton, in the valley beneath us; at another, we see the spires and roofs of the village of Paris, on the uimmit of an opposite hill; and at another, we discern the city of Utica, nine miles distant. At several of these points commanding the finest prospects, rustic arbors, rod seats, will soon be constructed.

PLAN of GROUNDs AT HAMILTON COLLEGE.

Having now arrived at the main entrance, it will, perhaps, be our good fortune to neet some of the Professors, (a few of whose residences appear on- the south side of our Plan,) and to receive under their roofs that hospitality which they know well how co dispense. Before parting, however, we beg to assure you that the work we have thus begun shall be completed. These grounds are not, indeed, of vast extent; we lave no wealth to lavish in marble fountains and statues, and other costly works of art; but we will try and not mar what Nature has rendered so beautiful to our hands. By planting trees, shrubs, and flowering plants of every variety of form and foliage, and each, if possible, perfect in its kind; by propriety of arrangement; by such leasing structures as our means will enable us to adorn the grounds with; and by endering all these accessible by roads and walks; we will try to make this plateau a launt of beauty, and in harmony with the enchanting scenery which surrounds it.