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PARK 



direct froiu tlie board, art' empluyod an engiueer. local 

 superiuteudeut.s, gardeuors, foremen, etc. The engineer 

 is generally an assistant of the city engineer, assigned 

 temporarily to park work. When new parks are to be 

 acquired or plans are to be made for their development, 

 a professional landscape architect is employed to advise 



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PARKIXSO.XIA 



1857-18tl8, special report accompanying plan of Central 

 Park, 1858; Brooklyn, 18U7-1873, special report accom- 

 panying plan of Prospect Park, 18f)«; Boston, 187!», 1880, 

 188.^, city document 125 of 1880; Boston, Metropolitan 

 District, 1893; Buffalo, 1871, 1886, 1888; Chicago, report 

 on plan of South Park, 1871 ; Montreal, report on 



.. . Mount Royal, with plan, 1881. See Pro- 



" ceedings American Social Science Asso- 



ciation, 1870, 1880; "Mass. Park Law," 

 state printers, 1894 ; Proc. Amer. Park 

 and Outdoor Arts Assoc. 



F. L. Olmsted, Jr. 

 PAEKINSdNIA (John Parkinson, 1507- 

 lOJ'.i. Ldiidciii :i|«itlnM-ary. author of the de- 

 lightful I'Mia.liMi-. Terrestris and Thea- 

 triitu i;<i!;ini<-uiii 1. Lt.'yumindsa', Seven 

 or « spcciis of tropical trees or shrubs, 

 often armed with short spines: Ivs. bi- 

 piuuate, with 1 or 2 pairs of pinme; the 

 common petiole short, often obsolete or 

 spinescent; stipules minute or none: lis. 

 yellow or whiti-^ii, "11 ■^I'^nder pedicels in 



tha 



1546. A park- 



effect 



1 private garden. 



the board and to make plans, and is usually retained at 

 least in a consulting capacity during the period of con- 

 struction. Some large cities retain a consulting land- 

 scape architect permanently to advise them with regard 

 to questions of improvement and maintenance affecting 

 the desi.gn of the parks. 



S^i^isfjcs. — Reliable statistics of parks are almost 

 unattainable. The accompanying incomplete compila- 

 tion (see foot of page) was made in 1897 by the secre- 

 tary of the Louisville Park Commission. Some items 

 are corrected to 1900. 



Bi6/iO(7'rap/)i/. — "Park" in American Cyclopedia, En- 

 cyclopedia Americana, Johnson's Cyclopedia ; Park 

 Reports of the various cities, especially New York, 



cent and nectariferous on the inner si<le ; 

 stamens 10, free, the upper one gibbous 

 outside: ovary several -ovuled, shortly 

 stipitate : pod compressed, 2-valved, lin- 

 ear to linear-oblong, more or less twisted: .seeds com- 

 pressed, albuminous. Bot. Calif. 1:101. 



The dominant type, both in the wild and in cult., is 

 P. aculeata, the Jerusalem Thorn, which is probably a 

 native of America, but is naturalized or cult, in all tropi- 

 cal countries. Another species is S. African, 3 are 

 S. American, and the re " " 

 Texas and S. Calif. P. 

 tree with feathery .Ir . ]. 



places and can i-n.l 

 European couservniom 

 ported seeds, but it is i.f 

 though generally destitii 



spaces. Acreage. Acreage. 



$2135 

 16 66 

 3137 



