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his success, cannot withhold from him the first prize of fifty dol- 

 lars for his grapery, and do accordingly award the same to him 

 therefor. 



The next visit of j^our Committee was to the grounds of 



The City Hospital, Boston. 



Only a few j-ears ago, this land was redeemed from the ocean, 

 but it has now a friendly soil, and presents, upon the whole, a very 

 pleasing effect of grass and flowers, although in some places 

 hardly smooth enough for a flliished lawn. 



Its form is nearly that of a parallelogram, between four streets. 

 It fronts on Harrison Avenue about 450 feet, and extends back to 

 Albany .Street, about 650 feet ; East Springfield and Concord 

 Streets bounding the sides. The lodge and gate for admission 

 are near the north line and on the Avenue. No other buildings 

 are within one hundred and fifty feet of the Avenue. At a proper 

 distance from the side streets stand twin buildings, about 100 

 feet long (one for the Surgical and the other for the Medical 

 department), and from the easterly end of each springs a quarter- 

 circle colonnade, cumdng until it strikes a showy central structure 

 with high pillars, which forms, as it were, a key-stone to the arch 

 which connects them all. This central house, surmounted by a 

 dome, is conspicuously elevated aboA^e the othei's, and has a long 

 flight of broad steps facing Harrison Avenue, about 270 feet dis- 

 tant. The large area (120 by 180 feet) between these build- 

 ings is formed into an oval by walks around it ; and a straight 

 path, cutting the oval in twain, leads from the steps to the street. 

 The borders were planted, ribbon fashion, with lobelias, golden 

 pyrethrura, carnations, heliotropes, roses, pelargoniums, achy- 

 ranthes, and coleus ; a somewhat peculiar arrangement. Near the 

 centre of the oval, on either side of the path, a bed was formed, 

 having a centre of cannas, with rings ; first, of ageratums and car- 

 nations, mixed ; and then, successively, pelargoniums, centaureas, 

 verbenas, and golden pyrethrum ; the whole making a neat 

 appearance from the hospital windows. 



A drive-way entering near the lodge, sweeps by a very broad 

 curve to a gate at the south end, enclosing on the front a narrow 

 segment of a somewhat irregular curve, more than 300 feet long, 

 divided by the path above mentioned. On each side of this 

 divided green, tliree flower beds were made in the turf — one 

 being circular, one diamond-form and the third a small crescent. 



