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residents on each side would feel a mutual pride and 

 pleasure in keeping it tidy, and adorning it with trees and 

 shrubbery. It is easy to perceive that such a street 

 would form a highly ornamental feature in a town, the 

 picturesque effect of which would be greatly increased 

 by the occasional introduction of a tasteful bridge as 

 convenience might dictate. 



These few hints as to the application of general prin- 

 ciples will serve, I trust, to illustrate my meaning and to 

 prove that the element of beauty in a town as in a private 

 place, must be integral to itself, the result of archi- 

 tectural arrangement, and the development thereby of 

 whatever attractive features its site may possess or com- 

 mand, and that it is only by the exercise of timely 

 forethought in the preparation of a design, that these 

 results can be secured. Subsequent decoration by fine 

 buildings and works of art will of course serve to increase 

 and promote the general effect of magnificence, but such 

 decoration can never render a place beautiful which is 

 not intrinsically so, any more than costly jewelry and 

 elaborate dressing can confer beauty upon an awkward, 

 plain and ungainly person. 



Of late years the attention of capitalists has been 

 largely drawn to the subject of landscape architecture as 

 a means of increasing the value of suburban property, 

 by the tasteful arrangement of large areas to render them 

 attractive as building sites. In some instances very 

 large sums have been expended in making improvements 

 before offering the lots for sale ; the roads being con- 

 structed in the most thorough manner, and ample pro- 



