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In addition to the street sweepings, thousands of cubic yards 

 of loam, clay, etc., have been carted into the Park each year for 

 the formation and growth of lawns and shrubbery groups. 



When the sand has been bound and prevented from drifting, 

 a forest of strong-growing trees established (giving the required 

 shelter), and a good soil provided, the problem of park building 

 becomes very much the same as when the work is undertaken on a 

 piece of land possessing naturally good soil and covered with 

 natural trees. 



On this thousand acre tract, which originally was a bleak 

 waste of drifting, barren sand, may now be found groves of 

 handsome trees, natives of many countries of both hemispheres, 

 and of all the continents. Here one may see the Cedars of 

 Lebanon and of Mount Atlas as well as the Deodars of the 

 Himalayas, the Araucarias of Chile, Brazil and Norfolk Island, 

 also the large-flowering, handsomely foliaged Magnolia of our 

 Southern States, the Elms of New England, and the Sequoia, 

 Cypresses, Pines, etc., of our own State. In addition may be 

 found the Yews of Old England and the fragrant, feathery 

 Acacias of Australia, together with groves of Bamboos, masses 

 of gaily-flowered Camellias and Rhododendrons and stately 

 Rubber trees, while hundreds of other varieties of trees and 

 shrubs are to be seen, natives of many climes, all of them ap- 

 parently happy and healthy in their new surroundings. 



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