ings in parks are in tliemselves no protection in great 

 ilic lesortb and e\en wire fences may entirely fail 

 prevent pei pli tidin ti mipliiu ' lut (t tlie sli i h 



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and blocking the narrow bridges The unused concert 

 place now his a display of bedding plints. The second 

 gvthering place was at the top ot Lookout Hill, which 

 uses 100 feet above the surrounding country and eom- 

 niauds a noble view extending out to sea. Here is a 



wholly ovei li 

 undei growth 

 tion the path 

 nanow numei 



« ith a varied 

 w odland sec 

 t iinparatn elv 

 iiitiu ite as hthts 

 the intricacy and detail of sjlvan stentrj 

 and points ot special luteiest are muked 

 b> simple rustic seats shelteis outlooks 

 and the like In the southern part of the 

 park IS a lake 02 acres m extent of arti 

 flcial formation but ot natural appearance 

 It IS Hi^e inou„h tt iffird g rd 1 >itincr m 



ber 



ten Liul ih li 1 1 i| I I I 1 I II 



well grown and are veij attractive except 

 where indiscriminate use has worn them bare 

 or where the originally intended wild under 

 growth IS lacking. Parts of the shore have tor 

 contrast the open meadow character, a char- 

 acter which will be emphasized when some 

 of the planted trees are cut, as necessary. Several im- 

 portant points were chosen in the design of the park ns 

 places for the gathering of large and denst- cimw -i^. :umI 

 were planned with that end in view. Tlir Iit -i nl tli. -.■ 

 was the concert grove near the east end .ii tin Likr. 

 The great breadth of bare ground or pavinieiit wlitirvir 

 large crowds gather frequently, makes absurd any 

 attempt to simulate natural scenery in such a place, and 

 in the design of the concert place a grove of formally 

 planted trct'S with architectural accessories was made 

 upon L-'iiil iiiiil; -niund, arranged radially at one 

 side oi I : I :. i,, 11 The lake, upon an island in which 

 the 1m 1 ! -he placed. Upon another side of 

 the lj;i\ .( i:iij' ■ >i urse for carriages was also pro- 

 vided, iiriil 111 (•.Jiiiiii-liou with the formal treatment of 

 the concert gruve was built a shelter, a restaurant and 

 a terrace overlooking the main drive. While the grove 

 was still so young as to be unattractive a band-stand 

 was erected in a natural grove near the Nether- 

 mead, a place in whiej^ the intricate woodland scenery 

 with its brook and pools and shrubbery, and the cor- 

 respondingly intricate arrangements of narrow paths 

 and bridges, bridle path and drive, were unfitted for 

 accommodating a large crowd. Here the people are 

 now drawn in thousands, wheelmen, carriages, horses 

 and people on foot, all trampling about together among 

 the trees and where the grass and bushes once grew. 



1644. Bdee of the concert grove in Prospect Park. 



large carriage concourse, although a shelter and other 



1643. Water scene 



laree rural Park. 



winding pool and filled with a rich III ', :.., . i-iiig 

 of rhododendrons and other flowering t '^A.r- 



greens, growing in an irregular ami ]i.iiin-.|',. iiian- 



hy any of these special features with their 

 strong, iiiilividual characters, he need see 

 none of them that he does not particu- 

 larly care fur, as they are all self-contained 

 and do not obtrude themselves upon the 

 dominant park landscape, for the sole ob- 

 ject of securing which the limits of the 

 park were extended to their present size. 

 The above remarks illustrate the type of 

 changes that are likely to occur in all pub- 

 lic parks, and for this reason they may be 

 suggestive to the reader. 



2. The small city park (Fig. 1644-.'5), from 

 ten to two hundred acres or thereabouts, is 

 usually an effort in the same general direc- 

 tion as the large rural park, with a limita- 

 tion fixed by the difficulty of setting apart a 

 large body of land in one piece at a point of 

 access to a large population. It is almost 

 impossible to attain within so small a space 

 the degree of seclusion from the city and 

 the sense of breadth, simplicity and free- 

 dom that are the essential features of the 



