EDITORIAL NOTES 



THE PARK IDEAL 



JUST now when our American cousins are 

 waking- up high ideals of landscape 

 beauty, and when nearly every city is plan- 

 ^nin^ on a park system which shall give their 

 people the pleasure of country drives almost 

 in the very centres of commercial life, it be- 

 comes us in Canada to shake off our leth- 

 argy and see to it that we are not behind in 

 this splendid movement. 



We have already referred to the work un- 

 dertaken by the Hamilton Horticultural So- 

 ciety in connection with the League of Civic 

 Improvement, but it is time the city fathers 

 began to plan greater things. Dundurn 



Park and the Gore Park, for example, have 

 long been a credit to that city, but these are 

 too limited for a growing city ; and it would 

 be a happy movement ft a more extended 

 area could be secured along the water ways 

 to the west, which could in time be laid out 

 in beautiful drives, and possibly connected 

 with Dundurn by an avenue which would af- 

 ford a beautiful outing for the citizens. Too 

 often, in the use of water, beauty is sacrificed 

 to utility, which in a park is a wrong ideal. 

 For example, figure 2487 shows a cheap and 

 unattractive iron bridge, which from the utili- 

 tarian point of view would be most desira- 

 ble, but in a park would be entirely out of 

 keeping with its surroundings. 



Fig. 2487. Utilitarain, But Not Artistic. Fig. 2488. A Combination of Use and Beauty. 



