the point of view of the general public, such as city back-yard 

 gardens and typical good treatments for small suburban homes, 

 present peculiar difficulties in that they would be rather lacking 

 in realism and effectiveness unless associated with buildings which 

 would be in themselves inharmonious with the general informal 

 park-like landscape of the tract as a whole, and that most ot 

 them would need almost complete isolation from each other and 

 from the general landscape. 



There are along the Pelham Parkway frontage some rather 

 isolated areas of moderate width, as yet undeveloped and cut 

 off by rocky hills from the rest of the Botanical Garden which 

 can be devoted in whole or in part to small detached Model 

 Gardens. 



But one of the assets of these sites is the fact that they do 

 front on the Pelham Parkway and can be seen by the large numbers 

 of motorists who use that route without ordinarily entering the 

 Botanical Garden enclosure. So far as practicable, therefore, 

 it would seem advantageous to use these sites for exhibits some- 

 what of the nature of "show-window displays" — bold, striking, 

 adequate to arrest the attention and pleasantly arouse the interest 

 of people going by at the rate of twenty miles an hour or more, 

 despite the interposition of the enclosing fence and the trees of 

 the Parkway itself. There seems no sufficient reason why this 

 part of the grounds should not be thus thrown visually open to 

 the outside, because the logical line of scenic enclosure for the 

 main body of the ground lies for the most part on the height oi 

 land just north of this bordering strip. We are not prepared 

 as yet to offer definite and well-considered suggestions tor the 

 kinds ot Model Gardens most suitable to these sites, but it would 

 seem that they might well include some of the more bold and 

 striking types of display offering a succession of colorful effects 

 through each season. On the other hand, it would be a pity to 

 put only such exhibits in these "show windows." Some other 

 equally striking but perhaps more refined and quasi-naturalistic 

 exhibits should be provided for, such, perhaps, as a show ot 

 lilacs and one of Crataegus and crab-apples and other so-called 

 "flowering" trees. 



For small special domestic gardens of urban and suburban 

 types, places might be found, preferably in direct connection with 

 small houses occupied by Garden employees or adapted to neces- 

 sary uses other than residential which are capable of fitting into 

 a dwelling-house structure, in accessible locations near the entrance 

 closest to rapid transit stations but completely isolated from 

 the general landscape by screen planting. 



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