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are imposed by conditions of soil and exposure, by- 

 rock and springs. How far each of these can be over- 

 come, as by blasting, grading, draining, screening, 

 manuring, and other processes, has to be studied with 

 care, and the artistic purposes of the plan must be 

 affected in every part and particular by the conclu- 

 sions arrived at. 



"In the case before us, it is obvious that we should 

 attempt nothing that is incompatible with, or in- 

 appropriate to, comparatively slight variations of 

 surface and a climate of considerable rigour. On the 

 other hand, there are no protruding ledges of rock, 

 no swamps difficult of drainage, and there is no es- 

 pecial bleakness or danger to trees from violent winds 

 to be apprehended. It is under similar conditions 

 to these that we find in nature that class of scenery 

 already referred to as the original and typical scenery 

 of parks and which is termed pastoral. It consists of 

 combinations of trees, standing singly or in groups, 

 and casting their shadows over broad stretches of turf, 

 or repeating their beauty by reflection in the calm 

 surface of pools, and the predominant associations 

 are in the highest degree tranquillizing and grate- 

 ful. As expressed by the Hebrew poet: 'He maketh 

 me to lie down in green pastures, he leadeth me beside 

 the still waters.' We know of no other landscape 

 effects that can be commanded within the limitations 

 fixed by the conditions of this site which experience 

 shows to be more desirable in a town park than these. 

 Only so far then as we can without sacrificing any- 



