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good order and neatness. We want, especially, the 

 greatest possible contrast with the restraining and 

 confining conditions of the town, those conditions 

 which compel us to walk circumspectly, watchfully, 

 jealously, which compel us to look closely on others 

 without sympathy. Practically, what w^e most want 

 is a simple, broad, open space of clean greensward, 

 with sufficient play of surface and sufficient number 

 of trees about it to supply a variety of light and shade. 

 This we want as a central feature. We want depth of 

 wood enough about it not only for comfort in hot 

 weather, but to completely shut out the city from out 

 landscapes. 



"The word park in town nomenclature should, I 

 think, be reserved for grounds of the character and 

 purpose thus described. Not only as being the most 

 valuable of all possible forms of public places, but 

 regarded simply as a large space w^hich will seriously 

 interrupt crosstown communication wherever it 

 occurs, the question of the site and bounds of the 

 park requires to be determined with much more 

 deliberation and art than is often secured for any 

 problem of distant and extended municipal interests." 

 Speaking further about promenades being "congre- 

 gated human life under glorious and artificial condi- 

 tions," with the natural landscape not essential to 

 them, he thus speaks of the level compared with the 

 rugged or picturesque type of park : "there is no more 

 beautiful picture, and none can be more pleasing 

 incidentally to the gregarious purpose than of beauti- 



