[Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)] The walks around are laid out in the shape of noble terraces, some of which lead between tall avenues of box. The garden COUNTY OF \YESTCHESTER. 465 is extensive, and enriched by valuable fruit trees and shrubs. The splendid orange and myrli.e trees that once adorned the green house, were formerly in the possession of Mrs. Macomb of Kings-bridge. The green sward sloping gradually to the Hudson, is here and there dotted with fine specimens of ornamental trees; this, during the occupancy of the Philipse's, was emparked and stocked with deer. Among other exotics (which seem to thrive here,) we noticed on the edge of the river the English yew; judg-ing from its appearance and the exposed situation which it oc-cupies, we should say it was quite hardy enough to endure our coldest winters. We should be glad to see this beautiful tree, whose dark verdure never fails, naturalized in the gardens of Westchester. In this Mansion the lords of the manor on the great rent days, feasted their tenantry. Some idea may be formed of this establish-ment which maintained thirty white and twenty colored servants. There appears to have been two rent days yearly for the manor of Philipsborough. One in January, held at Yonkers for the con-venience of the lower tenantry; another a few days subsequent at Sleepy hollow, for the upper. In lieu of rent was frequently received a couple of fat hens, a day's work, or a trifling, sum amounting to three or four pounds.