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expense. At the present time, on a spring day espe- 

 cially, this conception is one of the most inspiring por- 

 tions of the park and the most important trees are still 

 there. The words of the landscape architects of the 

 park are as follows : 



"As an important suggestion springs from this 

 observation, we shall be pardoned for referring to a 

 portion of Central Park, N. Y., where somewhat 

 similar conditions formerly existed and where our 

 views have been adopted and realized. Entering 

 by the turn to the right at the Merchants' Gate 

 (59th St. & C. P. W.) in a few minutes the visitor's 

 eye falls upon the open space called the cricket ground 

 where originally was a small swamp, enlarged at 

 great expense in the construction of the Park in order 

 to meet a similar artistic purpose to that above 

 explained, by the removal of several large ledges of 

 rock, and now occupied by an unbroken meadow 

 which extends before the observer to the extent of a 

 thousand feet. Here is a suggestion of freedom and 

 repose which must in itself be suggestive and tranquil- 

 lizing to the visitor coming from the confinement and 

 bustle of crowded streets, but this is not all. The 

 observer resting for a moment to enjoy the scene, 

 which he is induced to do by the arrangement of the 

 planting, cannot but hope for still greater space than 

 is obvious before him and this hope is encouraged 

 first by the fact that though bodies of rock and foliage 

 to the right and left obstruct his direct vision, no 



