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Garden and Forest. 



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C* A DHCM A 1\1 F^ PADCCT structed into a symmetrical basin with architectural out- 



(j /\.r\Dfc<lN J\ [\ \_) l' {_) 1\ fc O 1 • unes > and since the character of the planting on the margins 



of the lagoons will make them unsuitable for skating and 



published weekly by wil1 not P ermit tne public to walk along the water margin, 



the Museum Basin provides for a broad walk a foot above 



THE GARDEN AND FOREST PUBLISHING CO. ) he ^f^f' f° < hat ^ basin Can be .^J 0T Sailil ¥ 



toy-boats and skating, in connection with these domi- 



„ M nating architectural works provision has been made for 



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considerable decorative planting of a formal kind. The 



. large conservatory which it had been determined to build 



in Washington Park has been appropriately placed in the 



Conducted by Professor c. s. Sargent. formal grounds about the Museum, where it will not be in 



view from any important part of the building and where 



the differences in the style of architecture of the two will 



entered as second-class matter at the post-office AT NEW YORK, N. V. , 1 , ■ 



not be unpleasantly obvious. 



==^===^^^==^==^= The North Haven and Wooded Island will remain sub- 



NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, MAY 20, 1896. stantially as they were during the Fair, although the shore 



of the lagoon is to be more varied with islands and bays. 



The west shore of the west lagoon, where the water seemed 



TABLE OF CONTENTS. too narrow, will be carried a little farther to the west. 



The south end of this lagoon will be widened and extended, 



Editorial Articles :— The Revised Plan for Jackson Park, Chicago. (Wit™ ' leaving a long and narrow island where the Electricity 



_, ■? a P5;)v yy-. 201 Building stood. The sites of the Government Building- and 



Shrubs, Native and foreign 302 ,, _ & ,„.,,. .„ , . . & ^ 



Product of white Pine per Acre b. e. Fermmi. 202 IVlanutacturers .building will be turned into slightly undu- 



Foreign Correspondence :— Bamboos in English Gardens IV. Watson. 206 InHnrr mpnrlnvv whirli will lip iiQpd for fpnm'c cnrl nihar- 



Cultural Department :-The Hubbard Squash and How to Grow It, lating meaClOW, WlllCll Will De Used lor tennis and Otfler 



wm iv. Tracy. 207 lawn games. The Grand Basin in the Court of Honor will 



Note?fr?m G th^ have its outline changed into irregular forms, and it will 



Flower Garden Notes e. o.Orpet. 2 o8 become the northern end of the South Lagoon and the Mid- 



Carex Japonica vanegata. Allium Magaritanicum J. N. G. 200 ,, t-, rr,, . c .. . TT , T ° .. . . . 



Correspondence:— why do Biossom-buds Winter-idii ? c w. McCiuet. 209 die my. 1 he view trom the West Lagoon Drive is mainly 



Recent PuIl^ations 03 ' 6 '" *? Morquesas ^^■■P™/"™* t.d.a. Cockenii. 209 to tne eastward over to the lagoon, and therefore the space 



Notes '.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'..'. !"."'II™.""."."I".'.""!."."; 210 between the drive and the west boundary of the park would 



Illustrations:— General Plan World's Columbian Exposition 204 l„ f rn mnarati vpl v small lanHsranp iralnp pvr-pr,t qo of 



Revised Plan for Jackson Park, Chicago 205 De OI comparatively small landscape value, except as af- 

 fording a screen of foliage against the city, and therefore 



= two athletic grounds have been planned here, one for men 



The Revised Plan for Jackson Park, Chicago. &nd ; ?» e for women,_and a smaller space for small children 



and infants, with suitable buildings, on the general lines of 



AT the exhibition of the Architectural League, held in similar grounds in Charlesbank, Boston, which have proved 



L this city last winter, there was a plan for the improve- very successful, 



mentof Jackson Park, Chicago, prepared by Messrs. Olmsted, In the south-west corner of the park will be a sixty-acre 



Olmsted & Eliot, of which we spoke at the time, and we field with a slightly rolling surface, which will not only 



have since then secured a reduced sketch, which we present have great value as a piece of landscape, but may be used 



to our readers on page 205, although, of course, many of for field games of all kinds. It will be restricted, however, 



the finer details are not evident as they were in the to the use of boys and girls of grammar-school age, not 



original. On page 204 we present for comparison the plan only to diminsh the wear of the turf, but to lessen the dan- 



for the World's Fair site, which covered the same area, and if gerto visitors by stray balls, which would be more dangerous 



we had space it would be interesting to republish a copy of if thrown or batted by men. For the first time a special 



the original plan of Jackson Park, made in 1871 by Olmsted, provision for bicycles has been made in the shape of a 



Vaux & Co., and which contained many of the fundamental path around the ball-field, with a large stand, surrounded 



ideas which were developed in the later creations. The by shade-trees, for refreshments and the social reunions 



plan of the World's Fairgrounds, on page 204, was originally that are apt to take place. This bicycle-path is not for 



published in volume v., page 291, of this journal, and the speeding, but for such promenading as is provided for 



description then given would be found of interest in con- equestrians in London at Rotten Row. A bridle-path also 



nection with the present design. The elements of the makes a complete circuit of the path south of the Colum- 



scenery of the park are : (1) the broad view of Lake Michi- bian Basin. 



gan commanded from the Shore Drive and the Concourse The point of land between South Haven and the lake is 



on Sunrise Bluff; (2) the spacious fields between the to be treated as a wild, wind-swept series of dunes. The 



lagoons and the lake and between the lagoons and the ground will have the form of dunes and will be planted on 



south-west entrance, each presenting broad, quiet land- the slopes toward the lake with Beach Grasses and Sedges, 



scapes of the simplest pastoral sort, which are pleasingly Beach Pea, low shrubs and other perennials. Back of the 



commanded from the adjacent drives and walks ; (3) the dunes Red Cedars, Prostrate Junipers, Beach Plums and 



lagoons, with their intricate and bushy shore-lines, their other bushes appropriate to sand dunes will be grown with 



beaches and bridges, their almost complete seclusion, Beach Pine and other native Pines on the lee or western 



with a scenery in strong contrast to that of the lake-shore side of the highest bluff, of which advantage is to be taken 



and fields— scenery which can be enjoyed not only from to afford a commanding view for persons in carriages, as 



the shore, but particularly from the boats. the Concourse at this point will rise to a height of twenty- 



The decision to retain the Art Building of the World's five feet above the lake. The University of Chicago hav- 



Fair for the Field Columbian Museum made it necessary ing developed since the original plan was made, and being 



to revise all the road-lines, together with the walks which situated on the north side of the Midway Plaisance, an 



had been designed for the original park and some of those opportunity has been provided here for boat-racing and 



which had been retained during the Fair, so that the stir- boating carnivals, and the series of basins connected by 



roundings of the great building should be in harmony with narrow canals in the original plan has been changed to a 



it. The Circuit Drive is now symmetrical to the right and canal uniformly a hundred feet wide and long enough for 



left of the north and south axis of the Museum, and the a mile race. The bridges to can')' streets across the canal 



straight road across the north front has been moved farther will have a hundred-foot span, so as to offer no obstruc- 



away. The pond south of the buildings is to be recon- tion to navigation. A broad walk on either side of the 



