HISTORICAL NOTICES. 57 1 



by the proprietors, not to exceed ten dollars per acre. 

 The fee of the Park is in three trustees and their 

 successors, and its care and embellishment is entrusted 

 to a "Committee of Management," who are elected 

 annually by the lot owners. 



Some of the advantages which are aimed at, in what 

 may be termed the social park, may be thus stated : 



1. The securing a neighborhood free from nuisances 

 and an inferior class of buildings. 



2. The rural character of the grounds is preserved, 

 instead of assuming the rectangular forms of a village, 

 which are a repetition of city lots on an inferior scale. 



3. The different places can be laid out with mutual 

 reference to each other, so that the subdivisions are not 

 apparent in a way detrimental to the general effect. 



4. A fine entrance and approach road can be secured, 

 even where the private grounds are small, and the 

 amount appropriated to these embellishments limited. 



5. The Park affords extensive drives and walks for 

 the exclusive use of the proprietors, with a variety in 

 the ornamental grounds unattainable on places of ordi- 

 nary magnitude. 



To illustrate the general mode of treatment of the 

 private grounds adjoining the Park, we give, in Figs. 107 

 and 108, plans of one of the sites of five acres. It is 

 situated on a gentle knoll, and the house, which is in 

 the Tuscan manner, occupies the summit, and com- 

 mands fine distant views in all directions. The place 

 is laid out in the natural style, by that very clever 

 Landscape Gardener, Mr. Bauman, and an appropriate 

 connection between the house and the surrounding 

 grounds is maintained by an artificial terrace, fifteen 

 feet wide at the top, and ornamented with vases, etc. 



The plans may serve, also, to show the method of 

 grouping the trees their positions, and the varieties 

 used, being given in the Table of References, page 573. 



Another phase of improvement in our rural taste is 

 the increasing care and attention bestowed upon the 



