site of the Mansion itself, the slopes to the north of it (where the 

 small stone stable occurs) up to the height of land on the east, 

 and in the region further south at least far enough eastward from 

 the river to include the whole of the narrow ridge that lies between 

 the river and the Park Department greenhouses. 



We believe this consideration alone precludes the rebuilding 

 of any garden house or other such structure on the site of the 

 Lorillard Mansion, whether the matter is looked at from the 

 point of view of a Botanical Garden or that of a public park. 



The land which lies to the south of a line drawn through the 

 existing foot-bridge across the gorge and to the east of the service 

 road that hugs the west side of the greenhouse is not quite so 

 intimately associated with the gorge; and, if the natural forest 

 border on the low intervening ridge were restored and widened 

 and made more dense, the outlying area beyond the limits above 

 defined might perhaps have a landscape character quite dissimilar 

 to that of the gorge without impairing the perfection of the latter. 

 But to introduce even in this area a highly elaborate and sophisti- 

 cated formal development with a garden house of considerable 

 size, would bring two contrasting kinds of things in such close 

 juxtaposition as to make the plan questionably wise. 



The second consideration, closely related to the point just made, 

 is that we have found no place on the whole Botanical Garden 

 lands nearly as well adapted as this swale (where the greenhouses 

 are) for the development of such a naturalistic Landscape Garden 

 as we have attempted to describe above; for the development 

 of a landscape characterized by a long stretch of beautifully 

 modelled lawn in association with free-growing trees, flowering 

 shrubs and herbaceous flowering plants; or indeed for the develop- 

 ment of an equally long, restful, completely unified and self- 

 contained view of any sort. These also are elements of which 

 there should be at least one admirable example within the Botani- 

 cal Garden. 



Therefore we have sought for other possible sites for a first- 

 rate formal garden in conjunction with a building for exhibitions, 

 meetings and social activities and with other features desirable 

 to associate with such a center. We believe that these things 

 can be provided for in another locality, which upon the whole 

 would be more advantageous for such purposes, and we will 

 discuss it in Part V. For this reason we do not hesitate to recom- 

 mend the assignment of the Lorillard Mansion area and the 

 area embracing the Park Department greenhouses and the swale 

 south of them nearly to the picnic grove for the purposes of the 

 Landscape Garden above outlined. 



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