RECREATION PARKS 



make contribute to park beauty because trees or other plant growth 

 cannot secure a foothold there, often are found to command extensive 

 views, and are rare opportunities for development as look-off points. 



ARTIFICIAL ATTRACTIONS 



The next step following adequate development of all natural 

 features of interest is the introduction in the park of certain artificial 

 features to augment its invitation and aid in attaining uniformity of 

 its use. In the choice of such features of interest the park builder is 

 offered a wide range of possibilities. It may be helpful to present an 

 inventory of these, reserving for discussion the particular ones which 

 are of special value in relation to the general design of a park or in 

 their individual aspect. There may be enumerated architectural 

 motifs of tea houses and refectories, shelters, pavilions, ornithological 

 and pathological exhibits, horticultural houses, zoological and botanical 

 gardens, music courts and concert gardens, opportunities for roller 

 and ice skating, for aquatic sports, toboggan slides for adults and 

 sliding hills for children, hippodromes, drill fields, baseball diamonds, 

 football fields, golf links, game courts of all kinds, and semi-natural 

 features such as grottos and cascades, water gardens, lotus and lily 

 ponds, deer preserves, picnic groves, and accessories for the special 

 amusement of children, such as ponies and donkeys and the goat 

 wagons which they hail with delight. 



This list of features is so extensive that, if included in any one 

 park, it would transform it almost into the character of an " amuse- 

 ment " park, not to be confused with a recreation park. In Berlin is 

 exhibited a noisy collection of merry-go-rounds, roller coasters, side 

 shows and other beach resort and circus appurtenances, all labelled 

 under the head of "America Park." It is for the landscape designer 

 to determine what features may be incorporated in a beautiful park 

 without changing it into an edition of Coney Island. Features which 



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