RECREATION PARKS 



is as one may view it. It has been built for the enjoyment of a little 

 community of people, common-place folk, maybe, who go there in the 

 late afternoons and evenings and Sundays to loiter among its shady 

 walks, to meet their friends and neighbours, to enjoy the wholesome 

 pleasures that may be obtained there. 



A MODEST EXAMPLE FOR SMALL CITIES 



The main driveway leads one to an open place at no great distance 

 from the gate, where is located a small open-air restaurant together 

 with a modest music pavilion. Many inviting walks lead from this, all 

 of them in much the same general direction, offering the visitor variety 

 in point-de-depart without possibility of missing the point-d'arrivee. 

 This alternative in choice of walk recurs to the very end of the long, 

 narrow strip of land which constitutes the park, and thus one finds that 

 on his return route he may in part regain the portions of paradise he 

 had feared to lose at the start. 



The general way leads the visitor by a succession of gardens and 

 enclosed lawns, embellished with lily ponds and simple fountains, allur- 

 ing him to stay at every point. After many such intermediate places of 

 interest he comes at the far end to The Labyrinth, a happy misnomer, 

 as the walks leading within, though somewhat labyrinthine, do not 

 terminate in cul-de-sacs, or torture the visitor with confusing turns 

 and windings leading nowhere, but take him quite directly to a " ruin " 

 at the centre, fashioned on a rocky eminence from which may be viewed 

 a charming panorama of the countryside. The visitor lingers there 

 unconscious of lapse of time, entranced with the pastoral beauty of 

 scene, desirous to return before he has left. 



One feels no oppression of distance on the way back, but continually 

 tarries, allowing his journey to be retarded by the park development 

 all along the way. Even within sight of the entrance he welcomes 

 opportunity to loiter in a little terraced garden, which is so humble in 



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