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NATURAL SCENERY A VIEW OP THE GENESEE RIVER IN SENECA PARK. ROCHESTER. N. 



Landscape Gardening. 



fl VIEW IN SENECA PflRK, ROCflBSTBR, N. Y. 



Tlie view of the Genesee River in Seneca 

 Park herewith represented is a part of the 

 gorge or canon extending from the lower 

 falls, where the river is spanned by an 

 iron bridge, to about four miles north of 

 the city. The banks are beautifully 

 wooded with white pine, hemlock, arbor 

 vita;, red cedar, American yew, shad, 

 hornbeam, iron wood, flowering and 

 alternate leaved dogwood, sumac, sassa- 

 fras, white and black ash, yellow and 

 black birch, all the native maples, includ- 

 ing the striped and mountain maple, 

 white and red elms, tulip, beech, red, white, 



black and chestnut oaks, hickory, butter- 

 nut, walnut, chestnut, basswood, black, 

 red and choke cherr}', mountain ash, 

 tupelo, aspens of two species, and Cot- 

 tonwood, which, including shrubs, com- 

 prise one hundred and twenty species. 



The banks are about one hundred and 

 sixty feet high. The width of the river at 

 the water's edge is about four hundred 

 feet, and the distance across the chasm 

 from the top of the high banks is about 

 nine hundred feet. From earlv in the 

 spring, when the river banks are white 

 with the blossoms of the shad tree, until 

 the frosts of early October paint the trees 

 with gorgeous colors, the view is grand 

 beyond description. 



The park commissioners of the city of 

 Rochester, by the advice of their landscape 

 architect, Frederick Law Olmsted, have 



secured two and onehalfmilesof thebank 

 on the east side of the river, extending 

 from the bridge across the river ft-om the 

 lower falls northerly, and have secured, 

 or will secure, about seven thousand eight 

 hundred feet on the west side of the river. 

 The remaining five thousand five hundred 

 feet have longsincebeensecured by Bishop 

 McQuaid for St. Bernard's Seminary and 

 the Holy Sepulchre Ceretery, and by the 

 Riverside Cemetery. The sloping banks 

 in the rear of these institutions will be 

 forever preserved at no expense to the 

 city. Since the wooded banks have come 

 into possession of the park commission- 

 ers they have been improved by removing 

 all old dead trees, and in some places cut- 

 ting out many of the inferior trees, and 

 opening views from various prominent 

 points on the river banks. It is the inten- 



