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Show rtooher Coantry Dace. Boscobel, the country placo of the late Henry Ward Deechcrat Peckskill on thu Hudson, has been Gold to Mr. Butler, of New York, for $75,000. The house cost Mr. Beecher $70000, and ho is said to have spent $000,000 on the grounds. The larger part of this sum was epent on trees. Mr. Beecher planted over 6,000, including every variety native to tlie temperate zone. The whole place was subsoded and drained, and his trees, which protected his garden from the I northwest winds, enabled him to have 1 fruits and vegetables two or three weeks ' ahead of bis neighbors. Harper's Bazar. |