376 Landscape Gardening 



a good position, sufficient natural wood, with open space and 

 good soil enough for the arrangement of all those portions 

 which require to be newly planted. 



Such a garden might, in the space of fifty to one hundred 

 acres, afford an example of the principal modes of laying out 

 grounds, thus teaching practical landscape gardening. It 

 might contain a collection of all the hardy trees and shrubs 

 that grow in this climate, each distinctly labelled, so that 

 the most ignorant visitor could not fail to learn something 

 of trees. It might have a botanical arrangement of plants 

 and a lecture-room where at the proper season lectures on 

 botany could be delivered, and the classes which should 

 resort there could study with the growing plants under 

 their eyes. It might be laid out so as, in its wooded posi- 

 tion, to afford a magnificent drive for those who chose so to 

 enjoy it; and it might be furnished with suitable ices and 

 other refreshments, so that, like the German gardens, it 

 would be the great promenade of all strangers and citizens, 

 visitors, or inhabitants of the city of whose suburbs it 

 would form a part. 



But how shall such an establishment be supported? 

 Cemeteries are sustained by the prices paid for lots, which, 

 though costing not a large sum each, make an enormous sum 

 in the aggregate. 



We answer, by a small admission fee. Only those who 

 are shareholders would (like those owning lots in a ceme- 

 tery) have entrance for their horses and carriages. This 

 privilege alone would tempt hundreds to subscribe, thus 

 adding to the capital, while the daily resort of citizens and 

 strangers would give the necessary income; for no traveller 

 would leave a city possessing such a public garden as we 

 have described without seeing that, its most interesting 

 feature. The finest band of music, the most rigid police, the 

 certainty of an agreeable promenade and excellent refresh- 

 ments, would, we think, as surely tempt a large part of the 

 better class of the inhabitants of our cities to such a resort 

 here as in Germany. If the road to Mount Auburn is now 

 lined with coaches, continually carrying the inhabitants of 



