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CHAPTER IV. 



SUBTJEBAN NEIGHBOEHOODS COMPAEED WITH COXINTET PLACES. 



" 'Twas town, yet country too : you felt the warmth 

 Of clustering houses in the wintry time." — Geo. Eliot. 



IANDSCAPE GARDENING, on a grand scale, in this 

 country, is only to be accomplished in public parks and 

 > cemeteries. Parks of considerable extent, as private 



property, are impracticable, by reason of the transient 

 nature of family wealth, in a republic where both the laws and the 

 industrial customs favor rapid divisions and new distributions. 



