Landscape Gardening 



The many beauties and utilities that would gradually 

 i*ro\v out of a great park like this in a great city like New 

 York suggest themselves immediately and forcibly. Where 

 would be found so fitting a position for noble works of art, 

 the statues, monuments, and buildings commemorative at 

 once of the great men of the nation, of the history of the age 

 and country, and the genius of our highest artists? In the 

 broad area of such a verdant zone would gradually grow up, 



FIG. 48. A JAPANESE PARK 



as the wealth of the city increases, winter gardens of glass, 

 like the great Crystal Palace, where the whole people could 

 luxuriate in groves of the palms and spice trees of the 

 tropics, at the same moment that sleighing parties glided 

 swiftly and noiselessly over the snow-covered surface of 

 the country-like avenues of the wintry park without. Zo- 

 ological Gardens, like those of London and Paris, would 

 gradually be formed by private subscription or public funds, 

 where thousands of old and young would find daily pleas- 

 ure in studying natural history, illustrated by all the wildest 

 and strangest animals of the globe, almost as much at home 



