14 Public Parks. 



a mile in length. There is not much room for riding or driving in 

 the other parks. 



PhoBnix Park, in Dublin, contains 1,752 acres, and is one of the 

 best natural parks in the world, but is not well laid out or well 

 kept. Birkenhead Park, near Liverpool contains 182 acres, designed 

 and constructed by Sir Joseph Paxton and Mr. Kemp, and is one of 

 the best laid out and most complete, for its age, in Europe. Several 

 new ones have been laid out, with villa districts about them, con- 

 nected by broad pleasure drives, upon which, in 1867, $1,640,000 

 were expended. 



Birmingham has a park recently laid out, where an entrance fee 

 of a penny is charged, by which funds are raised to defray the 

 expenses incident to its purchase and maintenance. As soon as 

 paid for, admission will be free. Halifax has fine parks, Derby and 

 Arboretum, both of which were provided by benevolent citizens. 

 Manchester, Bradford, and other manufacturing towns have recently 

 laid out parks, the result of subscriptions or joint-stock companies 

 Public promenades are common in England, among which may be 

 cited the old city walls and the river bank above the town of Chester, 

 the common and old castle grounds at Ludlow, the castle garden and 

 cathedral grounds at Hereford, the river banks at Lincoln, and the 

 cathedral green at Salisbuiy and Winchester. 



PARKS ON THE CONTINENT. 



The garden of the Tuileries, with the Champs Elysees, in Paris, 

 makes the finest urban promenade in the world. In the centre is an 

 avenue of horse chestnuts three miles in length. On either. side, in 

 the gardens, are groves, shrubberies, and parterres of flowers. The 

 garden of the Luxembourg is another interior promenade laid out in 

 formal style, with an avenue, groves, flower beds, and a rose garden 

 of a mile in circumference. The gardens of the Louvre are also very 

 fine. There are also many other gardens and squares in Paris. 

 Many of the streets are planted with trees. Some of the boulevards 

 are the levelled ramparts planted with trees. The boulevards 

 exterieurs are an interupted series of broad streets, of an aggregate 

 length of seventeen miles, lined with trees. 



The avenue de L' Imperatrice is a straight promenade between 

 Paris and the Bois de Boulogne, three hundred feet wide. It con- 

 sists of a carriage way sixty feet wide, a pad for saddle horses, and 



