20- 

 of woodland reservations #, at a radius of some eleven 

 miles from Boston Common, - the Lynn 17oods, 

 Middlesex Fells, Stonfsy Brook and Blue Hill Reserva- 

 tions and, along the sea front, Quincy Shore 

 reservation, Revere and'Nantasket Beaches. These are 

 all more or less linked together by a chain of 

 beautiful parkways. Within this outer circle on 

 the various open spaces of the Park System of the 

 City of Boston; Franklin Park, the Arnold Arboretum, 

 Jamaica Pond and the Charles and Mystic Eiver 

 Reservation. The Metropolitan Park System is 

 worthy of close study and is certainly a great 

 accomplishment of modern civic art, preserving for 

 the people a permanent and increasingly beautiful 

 possession which from irtV first acquisition brought 

 to the district a new and precious renown. 



Another interesting story is that of the 

 Cook County Forest Preserve^ created and maintained 

 for the recreation use of the great population 

 of Chicago, Illinois. This forest playground 

 indludefi about 23,000 acres at the present time, 

 less than six years since judicial approval of the 



#Report of the Metropolitan Park Commission Boston 

 1908, pages 20, - the area of reservations given 



as 9,392,88 acres. The extent of parkways given 



as some 27.5 miles. 



