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THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST. 



Fig. 2381. Agassiz Bridge, Boston. 

 Crossed by members of American Park and Out Door Association during their excursion. 



LANDSCAPE ART 



The time is past when a town or city can 

 afford to simply make an enclosure and call 

 it a park. Public taste is growing- rapidly, 

 fostered by our Horticultural and Civic 

 Improvement Societies, and no park should 

 be made without carefully studied plan, by 

 one who is an expert. " Effective landscape 

 gardening," says Klehm in "The Iowa Park 

 and Forestry Association Report," "is an 

 art, which is only acquired by considerable 

 study, taste and judgment on the part of the 

 artist engaged on its execution. The art 

 has reference chiefly to the laying out of 

 grounds and the arrangements and planting 

 of trees, shrubs and plants in such a manner 

 as to eventually produce the most pleasing 

 effect ; so far as circumstances in individual 

 cases admits. Definite ideas are absolutely 

 necessary and no attempt should be made in 



laying out, or improving grounds, without 

 the fullest consideration being given first 

 and the results calculated to prove certain. 



POPULARISING PUBLIC PARKS 



THIS was the subject of an interesting 

 address by Dr. Elliot, president of 

 Harvard University, before the American 

 Park and Out Door Association, which met 

 in Boston the first week in August. -To 

 enjoy a park, one must do more than ride 

 through it, one must walk about; posts to 

 tie horses are therefore essential, and seats 

 for tired pedestrians. Announcements 



should be made of the seasons when shrubs 

 and flowers are in bloom, and these should 

 be in such profusion that no restriction will 

 be needed about plucking ; the grass should 

 be for use as well as beauty, and no sign, 

 "Keep off the grasr," set up; every en- 



