46 LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE. 



CHAPTER IV. 



ADVANTAGES TO BE SECURED BY TIMELY FORETHOUGHT 

 INJURIOUS RESULTS OF RECTANGULAR ARRANGE- 

 MENT ON AN IRREGULAR SURFACE SUBURBAN 



ADDITIONS. 



|AVING pointed out some of the defects arising 

 from the neglect to provide in season for future 

 necessities, I propose now to consider some of the 

 advantages which might have been secured by such fore; 

 thought; in doing which, however, I propose only to 

 make general suggestions which may be equally applica- 

 ble elsewhere, and which I trust will serve to prove the 

 truth of my assertion that even on a level site the princi- 

 ples of landscape architecture (according to the definition 

 I have given) may be judiciously applied to the arrange- 

 ment of towns. 



Let us suppose the central and most important busi- 

 ness portion of the city to be surrounded by a series of 

 small parks, connected by broad avenues or boulevards, 

 tastefully planted and adorned with fountains, flower 

 beds and appropriate works of art. Let other portions 

 of the city, appropriated to special branches of business 

 or manufactures, be similarly surrounded and isolated, 

 and from each of these areas, let a series of boulevards 



