CHAPTER IV.: 



SUBURBAN NEIGHBORHOODS COMPARED WITH COUNTRY PLACES. 



" 'Twas town, yet country too ; you felt the warmth 

 Of clustering houses in the wintry time." GEO. ELIOT. 



1\.NDSCAPE GARDENING, on a grand scale, in this 

 country, is only to be accomplished in public parks and 

 _^ cemeteries. Parks of considerable extent, as private 

 property, are impracticable, by reason of the transient 

 nature of family wealth, in a republic where both the laws and the 

 industrial customs favor rapid divisions and new distributions. 



