THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST. 



Fig. 1680. — Agas:^iz Bridge — Back Bay Fens. 



ing pond in which several hundred boys 

 may at times be seen, sporting people 

 with a golf field, the horsemen with a 

 fine speedway of half a mile, and all 

 lovers of the beautiful in landscape, 

 with beautiful lawns and trees and water 

 in most excellent combinations. 



At Boston, Mr. W. H. Manning, 

 landscape architect and secretary of the 

 Park and Outdoor Association, was ex- 

 tremely courteous and obliging to us. 

 Though over-burdened wi'.h office work, 

 and the superintendance of park designs 

 in many different States, he yet found 

 time to engage a carriage and accom- 

 pany us through the magnificent park 

 system of Boston, which now covers an 

 extent of 12,000 acres, of which the 

 Metropolitan Park embraces about two- 

 thirds, and the Bay Fens, the Arnold 

 Arboretum, Franklin Park and others 

 the balance. Probably no city in Am- 



erica has the same extent of Park as 

 this old and refined City of Boston. It 

 seemed like classic ground to pass the 

 homes of such noted men as Prof C. S. 

 Sargent, so well known as editor of The 

 Garden ; Charles Downing, author of 

 American Landscape Gardening and 

 Francis Parkman, the historian. 



The Arnold Arboretum is beautiful 

 and the group of hickories, oaks, coni- 

 fers, etc., show a good beginning of an 

 important collection but it seems to 

 have never realized the ideal of the 

 founder, for it has no labels and is ap- 

 parently incomplete in its collection of 

 species. 



In order to give our readers an idea 

 of some features of these parks we give 

 views of the Arnold Arboretum, Agassiz 

 Bridge and in Back Bay Fens, and some 

 ribbon bedding in the Public Gardens 



Mr. W. H. Manning has most kindly 



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