A SEASIDE PARK 



carry walks around the outer portions of the terri- 

 tory, leaving a long oval with a broad stretch of 

 greensward, a specially important feature in this 

 arid region skirting the sea. At the junctions of 

 the various paths and at the entrance gates abun- 

 dant plantations of trees and shrubs were set out. 

 The entire park is enclosed by a high iron fence to 

 protect it from the multitudes that throng Coney 

 Island many months of the year. The walks are 

 made of rubble stone and trap-rock screenings. 



The most interesting feature of this place is the 

 planting. The trees and shrubs have been vei-y 

 successful all over the tract, except where the 

 spray actually falls on them. The privets, plane- 

 trees, and English elms (Wheatleys) stand the 

 exposure specially well. Masses of hybrid and 

 maximum rhododendrons and a few kalmias are 

 planted at different points in the park and thrive 

 remarkably under the unnatural conditions to 

 which they are subjected. Nearly as hardy as 

 the English elm and Oriental plane-tree are the 

 American elm and Norway maple. Specimens of 

 yellow birch also thrive, catalpa, pussy willow, 

 weeping willow, and gray willow. Among the 

 various evergreens that have been tried on this 

 place the only ones which have done well are the 

 Austrian pines of which twenty remain out of an 

 original planting of twenty-six. 



The deciduous shrubs that have succeeded on 

 this place are somewhat numerous. Those that 

 do the best are probably Baccharis halimifolia, 

 or the groundsel; Myrica cerifera, the common 



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