290 CITY PARKS. 



Before concluding this brief itinerary of the park, 

 however, 1 must take the reader on horseback, as it were, 

 to two or three bits of charming scenery on the bridle- 

 paths, which can be seen nowhere else as well. The first 

 is on a curve around the southwest side of the lower 

 green near Seventh Avenue and 59th Street. There is a great 

 rock here, and an ever widening meadow, with a distant 

 view over another meadow and plenty of trees and 

 shrubs round about. The sweet influences of spring at 

 this point are not to be surpassed anywliere else in the 

 park. 



Another charmingly secluded spot may be found by 

 passing up the bridle-path to the stone bridge at 77th 

 Street and Eighth Avenue to a pool of water with a 

 loop road leading to the water's brink and a great sheer 

 rock on the opposite shore. The shrubs on the bank at 

 this point are attractive, in both spring and autumn, includ- 

 ing spireas, dogwoods, Lonwera fragnifitissima, weigelias, 

 pri^^ets, and masses of honeysuckles over the small rocks on 

 the edge of the water, and Ampelopsi's trieuapidata and Vir- 

 ginia creepers on the stone bridge and sheer rock. I would 

 advise the reader to mount a horse and ride through the 

 park, if only for the opportunity of sauntering down this 

 loop bridle-path at 77th Street and Eighth Avenue. 



There are, besides, choice bits of landscape along the 

 bridle-paths between 81st Street and 86th Street and up 

 by 97th Street among the pin-oaks. But in no other way 

 can the great North Meadow be seen so well as on horse- 

 back from the bridle-path that runs round its entii-e extent. 

 On the east side the bridle-path is completely embowered 



