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or in landscape effects which have been wrought out 

 by skill and attention in the park itself. Neither 

 Hyde Park nor the Bois de Boulogne offer any com- 

 manding range of view ; the delights all lie in the 

 neatly kept roadway, the flanking lakes and parterres, 

 the bright, green slopes of shaven turf; at Richmond 

 Hill or on the Pincian at Rome, on the other hand, 

 you forget the roadway, you forget the bits of pretty 

 turflet, you ignore the copses, you are careless of the 

 odor of flowers, for your eye, carrying all your per- 

 ceptive faculties in its reach, leaps to the fair vision 

 of flood and field and trees, which sweep away, in 

 sun and in shadow, to the horizon. 



Undoubtedly if the surface of adjoining country 

 will permit, it will be far less expensive to establish 

 a park whose charm shall lie in exterior views than 

 one whose attractions shall consist in what the pro- 

 fessional men call (by use of an abominable word) its 

 gardenesque features. Yet, with such economic pur- 

 pose, it will never do to go too far in the country. 

 It must never be forgotten with us that the men of 

 equipages are by no means the only class who are to 

 participate in our aesthetical progress ; the town park, 

 to have its best uses, must not only be within easy 

 reach by walk or by the street tramway, but it must 

 have, too, its spaces of level ground to allure the 

 cricket or the base-ball players. Areas should be 



