Science in Public Affairs 



General Dwellings Company has been a public 

 benefit, says : " I have looked into your Hamp- 

 stead Heath Extension scheme with the Garden 

 Suburb project adjoining. The price at which 

 you have the option of acquiring the land is a 

 reasonable one, perhaps I may say is a favourable 

 one. The locality of the land, having regard to 

 the nearness of the new tube stations and the 

 prospective tramway developments, is unusually 

 good. The shape of the land is especially favour- 

 able for the division of the property into sites 

 for different classes of inhabitants." 



DESCRIPTION OF THE SCENERY AROUND THE 

 GARDEN SUBURB 



More poetically it has been described by the 

 editor of the " House Beautiful," who writes : 



" Within four and a half miles of Charing Cross, 

 at the present time, may be heard on the still 

 night air the hoot of the owl, in the pauses of the 

 song of the nightingale, and by day the trees are 

 vocal with the songs of many birds. In deep 

 recesses under the yellow gorse the harebell tolls 

 its bell of tender blue, and the bracken grows in 

 luxurious tangle. Between the tall trunks of the 

 pine-trees, which crown the hill, is seen a wide 

 view stretching westward, bounded by the pointed 

 hills of Harrow and Stanmore, while in the valley 

 glints the white sheen of the lake at Hendon. 



" It is a scene which any great city should cherish 

 as one of its most valued possessions ; and yet it 

 came near to being lost to London for ever. 



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