'>96 ORNAMENTAL GARDENING. 



Undoubtedly many small cities and towns are to-day 

 debarred from baving a park, from tbe false notion tbat 

 one sucb, to be wortby of tbe name, must be large, or at 

 any rate very expensive. Sucb is not, bowever, tbe case. 

 Figure 116 is a plan of a ten-acre park, sbowing bow 

 mucb of garden and landscape attractiveness even a small 

 area like tbis may be made to yield. Here are some 

 hundreds of trees and flowering shrubs ; open areas of 

 lawn, tbe largest one about two acres in size, lakelet, 

 rill, spring (natural or artibcial), mound, rockery, 

 bridges, arbors, flowers, ample walks, play grounds, etc., 

 all disposed in a simple and largely natural style, and for 

 sbowing boldness of character throughout. A sbort 

 drive is also introduced. In parks of fifteen, twenty-five, 

 or more acres, these may be brought in more freely, and 

 tbere is greater latitude for creating fine garden effects. 

 A glance at the map of Paris, figure 113, shows a wise 

 distribution of small parks through a large city. In 

 that city about two hundred acres, divided into a dozen 

 parks of from three to forty acres each, are tbus employ- 

 ed. These exquisite gardens are productive of an im- 

 mense amount of comfort, pleasure, and healthfulness to 

 the Parisians, and undoubtedly far more so, than if all 

 were instead included in a single large town park. 



It is a great recommendation for small town parks, 

 tbat in our hot, dry summers, they could in many places 

 be kept watered, with the effect of constantly having 

 fresh, green lawns and foliage, a thing proportionally 

 more difficult as a park is larger. In fact it is just at 

 this season, when of all others we most enjoy cool, green 

 lawns, tbat tbe large parks are so parched up as to be 

 quite disagreeable. 



Where Botanical, Zoological, or otber collections are to 

 be secured, small sized parks, if not too small, are well 

 adapted to accommodating them. 



