OUT-OF-TOWN PLACES 



mirably fitted for drives, and already clothed 

 with the forest growth of half a century. 



EQUIPMENT OF PUBLIC GARDENS 



As I have already said, it is requisite that a 

 town park should offer a charming drive; so 

 far charming that every townsman will feel it 

 incumbent on him to give each stranger guest 

 a full view of its attractions. These latter 

 must lie, either in commanding views of the 

 town itself and its environs, or in landscape 

 effects which have been wrought out by skill 

 and attention in the park itself. Neither 

 Hyde Park nor the Bois de Boulogne offer any 

 commanding range of view; the delights all 

 lie in the neatly kept roadway, the flanking 

 lakes and parterres, the bright, green slopes of 

 shaven turf; at Richmond Hill or on the Pin- 

 cian at Rome, on the other hand, you forget 

 the roadway, you forget the bits of pretty turf- 

 let, you ignore the copses, you are careless of 

 the odor of flowers, for your eye, carry- 

 ing all your perceptive faculties in its reach, 

 leaps to the fair vision of flood and field and 

 trees, which sweep away, in sun and in shadow, 

 to the horizon. 



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