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corresponding system so far as means and opportunities 

 enabled them to do so, the effect would be to furnish a 

 widely extended system of magnificent drives, expanding 

 occasionally into gem-like gardens of irregular size and 

 shape, and conferring a park-like character upon the 

 whole surrounding country, which would exert a wider 

 and more beneficial influence in cultivating and refining 

 the popular taste than is possible by means of isolated 

 parks to be visited solely for purposes of recreation. 

 Such a system would afford, in fact, a greater extent of 

 driveway, and probably through a greater variety of 

 scenery than any city would be able to secure in a single 

 park ; it would be readily accessible from all parts of the 

 city, as well as the suburbs with which it would directly 

 connect, and the expense of purchase, construction and 

 maintenance would be less than that of a single area of 

 equal extent, while it would be more cheerfully borne 

 because it benefits would be more widely and equally dis- 

 tributed, while the work of improvement and consequent 

 cost might also be extended over a longer period of time 

 instead of being condensed, and enormously increased, as 

 it must be, if its immediate completion is demanded. 



Herein, in fact, is one of the chief advantages of a 

 previously prepared design of arrangement, whether it be 

 for a town, a park, or a private estate, since by means of 

 it the work can be arranged in order of its importance, 

 the most essential portions performed as required from 

 year to year, and with the knowledge from the outset that 

 it is always progressing to the accomplishment of a deter- 

 mined end, the unity of design being preserved through- 



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