PUBLIC PARKS AND CEMETERIES. 



THE observations and rules given for the general treatment of 

 private parks and gardens apply with equal force to the laying out 

 of public parks and recreation grounds, and of cemeteries. There 

 are, however, modifications rendered necessary by the special purpose 

 for which each is intended. Among others is the case where a 

 generous giver, feeling that open spaces are absolutely necessary, 

 presents, ere the builder has invaded the outskirts of a town, some 

 land to be devoted to the public ; and the landscape gardener, in 

 dealing with such a property, must appreciate the fact that such 

 land may in a few years prove an intramural oasis ; and he must 

 so arrange his laying out and planting that these in the future may 

 bear witness to his forethought. He will, therefore, know that his 

 park may be enclosed by houses ; he will arrange for broad gravel 

 spaces ; for his turfed ground to be unencumbered with overhead 

 trees ; that the plants themselves shall be such as will live amidst 

 smoke and dirt, and he will prepare for what elsewhere are pleasant 

 breezes being converted into biting draughts. In the neighbourhood 

 of towns, too, one is always liable to the ugliness necessitated by 

 modern civilisation, such as the railway embankment, the enforced 

 connection of a park with hospitals, baths, waterworks, etc., or with 

 a large building scheme. At Preston high railway embankments 

 cross the middle of the park and form the western boundary. 



