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the highesl degree tranquilizing and grateful, as expressed by the 

 Hebrew poet : "He maketh me to lie down in green pastures; ITe 

 leadeth me beside the still waters." We know of no other land- 

 scape effects that can be commanded, within the limitations fixed by 

 the conditions of this site, which experience shows to be more desira- 

 ble in a town nark than these. This being the case, no other should 

 be sought for or retained, if, by discarding them, we can the better 

 secure these. Only so far then as we can, without sacrificing any 

 thing that will contribute to the highest practicable ideal of pastoral 

 scenery, should we endeavor to secure any degree of those other 

 ideals, of which the best types are found under widely dissimilar 

 circumstances. 



Although we cannot have wild mountain gorges, for instance, on 

 the park, we may have rugged ravines shaded with trees, and made 

 picturesque with shrubs, the forms and arrangement of which re- 

 mind us of mountain scenery. We may perhaps even secure some 

 slight approach to the mystery, variety and luxuriance of tropical 

 scenery, by an assemblage of certain forms of vegetation, gay with 

 flowers, and intricate and mazy with vines and creepers, ferns, 

 rushes and broad-leaved plants. But all we can do in these direc- 

 tions must be confessedly imperfect, and suggestive rather than sat- 

 isfying to the imagination. It must, therefore, be made incidental 

 and strictly subordinate to our first purpose. 



Having formed these general plans, we find, in further study- 

 ing the site, its most important circumstance to be the fact, that a 

 large body of trees already exist upon it, not too old to be improved, 

 yet already old enough to be of considerable importance in a land- 

 scape. These trees are in two principal divisions, between which a 

 space of two or three hundred feet in width is found, of undulating 

 ground, not wholly ungraceful, and now mainly covered with a 

 ragged turf. A few trees stand out singly upon this space. It is 

 more nearly level, and less occupied by trees, than any other por- 

 tion of the site. There is no rock in place upon it, nor would it be 

 at all impracticable to reduce its few abrupt and graceless hillocks, 

 and fill up its gravel pits and muck holes. If we imagine this to 

 be done, and then look at it in connection with the surrounding- 

 groves, it is obvious that all that is required to form here a fair ex- 

 ample of pastoral scenery is, first, an improvement of the turf, and, 

 secondly, greater space, so that the observer may not see all the 

 boundaries of free sunlight before him at a glance. The former 



