PART II 



PARKS AND PARKWAYS 



IN considering the general principles that should 

 underlie the arrangement of home grounds, we are 

 not surprised to find that we are covering at the 

 same time the whole theory of the design of parks and 

 parkways, for when we reduce to first principles our 

 several schemes of arranging home grounds and parks, 

 we shall find that we are only, in the one case, contriv- 

 ing pleasure and comfort and good sanitary conditions 

 for the few, and in the other, provided we have substan- 

 tially the same general conditions of soil and topography, 

 for the many. Instead of one lawn on the village lot, 

 we have a series of lawns in the public park, but the 

 principles of arrangement are actually the same in both 

 places. There are, for instance, in both places open 

 lawns, bordered and framed by plantations of shrubs, 

 trees and herbaceous plants, with as few buildings as 

 will furnish the necessary solace and pleasure for the 

 occupants alike of home grounds and parks, and with 

 these should always be combined a reasonable amount 

 of seclusion. The same adjustment of the lawns and 

 plantations of the home grounds will also make the 

 largest park, multiplied though it be in size a hundred 

 times. 



