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reatioii, comfort, beauty, and healtlif ulness, to the greatest 

 number for the longest time. There should be such a 

 distribution of garden effects as to ensure accessibility 

 from all parts of the town, those inhabited by the poor 

 as well as the rich, and should contribute in the best 

 possible way to the attractiveness of the whole place. 

 Convenience and beauty should be considered as import- 

 ant in helping to build up a town as trade and manufac- 

 tures are. So much of attractiveness should be aimed at 

 by means of gardens, that few would prefer to live per- 

 manently out of the town that gives them their business. 

 And then only that system, which will provide for future 

 growth, ought to be acceptable with our many growing 

 towns. 



"BEAUTIFUL PARIS " AS A MODEL. 



Among all the cities of the globe, Paris, France, per- 

 haps, comes nearest to possessing such an ideal as has 

 been outlined. What has given to her the proud position 

 of being the most beautiful city in the world, has been, 

 as much as anything, the admirable arrangement of her 

 streets, gardens, and boulevards, and the effective location 

 of public structures throughout the city in relation to 

 these. And this city, beautiful, convenient, healthful, and 

 economically governed, should prove an interesting one 

 for our people to look to as an example in the present 

 age of city making for lessons in rendering our own cities 

 similarly attractive. 



In figure 113 is shown a plan of the boulevard and 

 public garden system of Paris (inside the walls — more 

 than one thousand ordinary streets being omitted), which 

 gives an idea of the manner in which these open up 

 all parts of a vast city of two million of people, bringing 

 air, sunshine, grass, and trees — the latter in numbers 

 reaching into hundreds of tliousands — so as to leave no 

 part of the town far from some of them. Go where one 



