94 THE ART AND PRACTICE OF LANDSCAPE GARDENING. 



Strangers would scarcely notice the railway that crosses the park unless 

 attention be called to the fact by smoke or noise ; for the line is 

 so broken by planting and by irregular lines of walk and turf, that 

 the hard, straight course is quite concealed. Rockwork even has 

 been introduced to foster the idea that the towering mass is only 

 one part of an old cliff. The stone of the district is sandstone ; so 

 various thicknesses and the dip of these strata are so arranged, that 

 though the lines of rock are constantly broken by turf bays and 

 planting, an observer of nature will find it difficult to recognise that 

 his surroundings are the result of labour, so carefully are the different 

 layers reproduced. At Glossop hospitals and baths formed part 

 of the noble gift to that town, and they had to be introduced 

 and made into integral parts of the whole. In the park some 

 difficulty was created by the existence of a natural ravine with a 

 stream running in the bottom, and completely cutting the land in 

 two. The beautiful and natural parts of this ravine were picked 

 out and made the most of, whilst, in order to convert the parts into 

 a whole, the sides were in places levelled down and the stream 

 covered. A park, too, may be made with the primary object of 

 increasing the value of the surrounding property for building land ; 

 and, instead of the desire being apparent that adjacent buildings should 

 be hidden, the object here is rather to furnish an idea that the park 

 is a larger recreation ground belonging to the individual gardens. 

 A place of public resort has generally some objects of particular 

 interest to which prominence can be given and ready access afforded. 

 Such objects are a winter garden, a pavilion, a band-stand, a shelter 

 seat, and in a lesser degree cricket, tennis, and archery grounds, 

 gymnasia, etc. Around the buildings the ground should be treated 

 formally, and near all points of interest where people will congregate 

 broad spaces of drive or walk must be given. In fact, the walks 

 and grassy spaces in public grounds should be wider than those made 



