fully at less expense than the second. It probably could now be 

 carried out at less expense, although only by the sacrifice of the 

 well-grown tulip tree avenues and some other features of the 

 present scheme. It would, however, require that a large area, 

 certainly not less than 20 acres, near the Museum and between 

 it and the Conservatory, should be kept permanently in a rather 

 broad, open, park-like treatment, which would be suitable for 

 the exhibition of a limited number of well-grown specimen trees 

 but for hardly any other specifically botanical garden purposes. 



We are inclined to believe that this area, so conveniently ad- 

 jacent to the Museum, to the Conservatory and to transporta- 

 tion services, ought to be much more intensively used than would 

 be possible under such a broad, simple, park-like treatment; that 

 it should include, for example, provision for diversified exhibition 

 gardens and kindred purposes. 



Such intensive use for various appropriate botanical garden 

 purposes might conceivably be worked out in a series of units 

 almost wholly informal and naturalistic in character; but for 

 many of them there would be much more assurance of securing 

 results good of their kind and at the same time compact, efficient 

 and easily maintained when visited by large numbers of people, 

 if they were frankly artificial or formal in their arrangement. 

 Such units, suitably designed and disposed, could be provided 

 with backgrounds and enclosing and separating masses of trees, 

 whether deciduous or coniferous or both, which would constitute 

 part of the botanical collection of trees and would be quite as 

 numerous as could be provided for in a rather open park-like 

 treatment such as has hitherto been attempted in this region, if 

 not more so. 



On the theory of more intensive use, therefore, the second and 

 more ambitious scheme involving a considerable amount of for- 

 mally planned development as distinguished from a mainly nat- 

 uralistic landscape, would seem to be the better. 



With either kind of general scheme, although more readily 

 perhaps in one characterized by the more extensive use of formal 

 elements in the plan, it would be feasible to provide in this vicin- 

 ity for the proposed Garden House and a representative Formal 

 Garden of the most exquisite sort, as previously discussed in 

 Part III, Section 4. 



In our preliminary report we ventured to suggest one possible 

 site for such a Garden House and for the Garden in connection 

 with it, but we are by no means satisfied that these would be the 

 best locations, nor can the best locations be determined without 

 developing a complete plan for the entire area in question. 



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