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stroll, to encounter a turbid stream of traffic. Each of 

 these roads has, therefore, been so located and arranged 

 on the adopted plan, that it may be carried through 

 the Park on a grade that will allow the pleasure-drives 

 to pass entirely over it at the necessary points of inter- 

 section, without any obvious elevation or divergence 

 from their routes. Short tunnels are preferred for this 

 purpose to ordinary bridges, so that the spaces at the 

 sides of the pleasure-drive may be thickly planted, and 

 the view of the city-street below shut out from view. 

 To illustrate still further the treatment of the grounds, 

 we have selected two of the more important points of 

 view (Figs. 101 -and 102, 103 and 104). showing the 

 original condition of the land, and the improvements 

 which are contemplated. 



In regard to the second description of Parks, we 

 would first remark, that in the United States, the most 

 numerous class from whom the art of Landscape 

 Gardening will receive attention, is composed of persons 

 of moderate means. They are mostly merchants or 

 professional men, who seek a refuge from the confined 

 and unwholesome air of the city, or whose taste leads 

 them to find agreeable recreation in the cultivation and 

 adornment of a country residence ; who still maintain 

 their business, or social connection with the adjacent 

 city or town, but whose time and means which can be 

 appropriated to their " place," are more or less limited. 



We have, indeed, a rapidly increasing number of 

 men of fortune, whose estates are large enough, and 

 whose means and liberality are adequate for the pro- 

 duction of the highest results of the art ; but our best 

 efforts must fall far short of the grand effects attainable 

 under the English system of proprietorship, and the 

 great majority of the practical exponents of American 

 Gardening, will always be cultivators of few acres, 

 whose taste, if correctly formed, will lead them to 

 attempt only modest results. 



