48 LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE. 



comfort, but attractive and elegant, so that the recollec- 

 tion of the enjoyment shall not be marred by an 

 association of physical discomfort in its attainment. The 

 annual increase of over 100,000 strangers to the winter 

 population of Paris, is due quite as much to the fact that 

 physical comfort and all the appliances of elegance and 

 luxury are as carefully provided in the means of attain- 

 ment of the objects of attraction, as in the objects them- 

 selves. Supposing each one to expend only $500 during 

 the winter's sojourn, a total of fifty millions is added to 

 the city's income, a reflection which is worthy the consid- 

 eration of those who think it a waste of money to spend 

 it for anything but actual necessities. But beside these 

 advantages, the most important of all, and one which at 

 this time will need no argument beyond its mere state- 

 ment, is the obvious fact that the surrounding of the 

 principal business and manufacturing districts of the 

 city with broad areas planted with trees, and dividing the 

 outer portions into sections by means of such boulevards 

 as have been suggested, would constitute the best possible 

 safeguard against any wide-spread conflagration. In 

 every design of town arrangement, reference should be 

 had to the danger resulting from prevailing winds of 

 peculiar force, and so far as possible the risk should be 

 averted or guarded against by means of intersecting open 

 areas arranged with reference thereto. 



I am of course aware that this general and incomplete 

 statement of a system is liable to criticism, and many 

 serious and perhaps some insuperable obstacles to its 

 detailed execution will present themselves to the practi- 



