572 LANDSCAPE GARDENING. 



grounds attached to our colleges, hospitals, and other 

 public buildings. 



Mr. Downing, we think, did much to develop this in 

 the taste he displayed in the arrangement of the grounds 

 attached to the Smithsonian Institute and La Fayette 

 Square, in "Washington. "We are rapidly passing from the 

 straight, formal walks, and the rectangular plantations 

 of the past, into the more harmonious and pleasing 

 arrangements of the modern school. Clinton Park and 

 Botanic Garden, which contains within its limits Hamil- 

 ton College, at Clinton, E". Y., is a very successful illus- 

 tration of this improvement. Fifteen or twenty acres 

 have been enclosed within the College Park, and en- 

 tirely laid out in the most skillful and artistic manner. 

 Broad and extensive lawns are divided by graceful 

 walks throughout the whole extent ; trees and shrubs, 

 of every description flourishing in this climate, have been 

 planted in groups, masses, or as single specimens. 



A section of the ground will be used as a Botanic 

 Garden, in which trees, shrubs, and flowers will be 

 arranged according to their several families. 



The humanizing influence of harmonious and beauti- 

 ful surroundings upon every one, is beyond all question ; 

 and it was truly said by the Rev. Mr. Gridley, to whose 

 taste and energy much of the success of the Clinton 

 Park is due, that " it is no vain thing to suppose that 

 the minds and hearts of students will be benefited by 

 daily walks through such grounds, and in view of such 

 a varied and wide-spread landscape : these peaceful 

 shades and sunny slopes and laughing streams this 

 hum of cheerful industry the music of distant church 

 bells, and the glimpses and echoes here caught of the 

 great thoroughfares of business and travel that mark 

 the great world without these skies, ever changing and 

 ever beautiful, and the seasons rolling through them 

 what mind can be brought into the midst of such scenes 

 without deriving from them essential profit f 



