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size and location, it may be said that as the complete boul- 

 evard and small park system afford in great measure a reme- 

 dy against the defects of the 

 latter nature, so the same 

 system affords certain safe- 

 guards against extreme mis- 

 management not possessed 

 by large parks. The garden 

 avenues extending a great 

 length through a town, are 

 in all their details brought 

 face to face with a large 

 body of taxpayers, and mis- 

 management is exposed and 

 becomes intolerable. At 

 best but a small portion of 

 all the people of a town 

 can visit the large parks 

 often, hence wholesale mis- 

 management f requ ently goes 

 on without detection or 

 check for a long time. And 

 it is significant that if parks 

 once happen to fall into a 

 state of neglect and decay, 

 they are liable to be shun- 

 ned even by many of the 

 otherwise regular visitors. 

 A lesson may be taken also 

 from the unpleasant reputa- 

 tion which to some extent 

 is associated with Central 

 Park as a resort of the vici- 

 ous classes, against con- Fig. ii 5. -central park as it 



' ® MIGHT HAVE BEEN. 



structing any large parks, 



abounding in much close wood near the present or future 



