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Your favor of the 28th came to hand in due time and I have since
communicated with r Davis
r Davisrestraining taste of another.
There is no room for attempting Landscape
Gardening, about the College Buildings. All that can be done, in my
opinion, is to trim the defective limbs of trees, remove the failing trees,
grade the roads & cover them (if it can be got) with gravel, remove
the surface stone from the grounds & enrich them so as to get grass to grow (at least in the more open spaces). The rears of the adjoining Lots to
be excluded from sight by planting a thick belt of trees along the boundary
of the campus. This belt may vary in width & be composed of any
trees, most likely to you — viza. Willows,
Elms, Thorns, &c.
Buy all the stable manure which you can get & mix it in alternate layers with swamp muck or vegetable mould, of which I think there is a deposit South East of the Colleges, and this compost will answer admirably for top dressing the campus and for planting trees & shrubs.
Substantiate walls of enclosure & handsome Gates, and good roads of
approach to the Village is all that I would
recommend to be attempted until you are ready to proceed with
Unless I am prevented by something unforeseen, I intend to visit
P S The Cedar tree or any evergreen will answer well for the belt of trees,
but they are difficult to transplant