LANDSCAPE GARDENING STUDIES 



scattering pines within its area. In order to avoid 

 the monotonous treatment which the place dis- 

 tinctly invited on account of its level surface, the 

 scheme of a series of concentric circles was devised 

 because it was recognized that the best effects of 

 park design are produced by massing large features 

 of the landscape together and securing prolonged 

 vistas and continually curving lines in every 

 direction. 



The whole area was bisected by two long avenues 

 running nearly at right angles. At the inter- 

 section of these roads was established a large 

 park of seventy-five acres which was devoted 

 entirely to lawns and trees, burial places being 

 excluded. Extending in four directions from this 

 center a series of concentric circles were laid out, 

 with one of the avenues before mentioned in every 

 case passing through the center; and connecting 

 the different circles were various areas of irregular 

 form with roads devised to fit their outlines. 



The interior of these concentric circles was 

 arranged for burial lots by more concentric circles 

 with connecting roads and paths just as in the 

 larger scheme. The curve of the arc of these 

 circles forming a side or an end of an individual lot 

 was so slight that its deviation from a straight line 

 was barely noticeable, yet viewed as a whole the 

 gridiron effect was entirely eliminated. Points or 

 areas were established at the center and other 

 portions of the curves where trees and shrubs 

 could be planted in such masses as would secure 

 a natural park-like effect. 



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