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tiful views possible, but they themselves should have 

 massed at their junctions, and various other points, 

 trees and shrubs, to modify the objectionable influence of 

 their uninteresting surface. You may have woodlands, 

 rocky rambles, and straightway lines of paths and roads, 

 but the ultimate analysis of all grouping or arrange- 

 ments of this kind for all landscape purposes, is the lawn 

 and framing trees and shrubs, the necessary buildings, 

 paths and roads being subordinated and kept as much 

 as possible out of evidence. This helps reduce the prob- 

 lem of park treatment to very simple terms, which will 

 be found to be sensible and sound when they have been 

 duly considered. 



In contemplating the different objects that naturally 

 associate themselves in a public park, we find that chief 

 among them are included peace, rest, the means of 

 seclusion, also the suggestion of the best kind of land- 

 scape and of country sights and sounds, trees, grass, 

 birds, flowers, open meadows for games for men and 

 boys and little children, and buildings for music, eat- 

 ing, drinking, and all sorts of social intercourse. All of 

 these features are, within certain limits, equally desir- 

 able on home grounds of small as well as large dimen- 

 sions. A park, therefore, is evidently nothing more 

 in its essential character than a great country place 

 where hundreds and thousands may cheerfully resort 

 for the joy of open-air life, for games, and, in secluded 

 places, for the rest and peace of something like sylvan 

 solitude. 



These conditions should never be forgotten by those 

 who are seeking to secure parks, small or large, for 

 town or city. It should be, above all things, the undi- 

 vided aim of every one who may undertake the duty of 



