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GENERAL NOTES. 
BOTANY.! 
Tue Botany oF a City Square.—Manhattan Square, in New 
York city, comprises a desolate and broken area of eighteen acres 
on the west side of Central Park, at Seventy-seventh street and 
Eighth avenue. It presented, a year ago, the appearance of a 
basin with an irregular marginal shelf of higher ground and with 
a ridge of gneissoid rocks running in from its south-eastern cor- 
ner, upon whose summit stood the American Museum of Natural 
History. It was otherwise varied by artificial mounds formed of 
huge gneiss blocks split and blasted off from the original hill 
na ie rose up where the museum now stands, and its sides, in 
many places presented steep banks formed from similar frag- 
mwi confusedly heaped up in precipitous and jagged piles. The 
lowest part of this ground was covered by a stagnant pond whose 
periodical putrescence became both offensive and dangerous. 
With the bare shoulders of rock protruding in naked bosses here 
and there, the general aspect of the square was particularly for- 
lorn and unfortunate. The complaint of the health officers in 
conjunction with a revival of the original intentions to make this 
__ Spot an appropriate outlier of Central Park, both healthy and 
_ attractive, resulted in some municipal efforts to secure these ends. 
Earth was carted in, the sightless slopes of stone were covered 
over, the pond filled up, the bare tables of rock hidden, and an 
attempt made to change the abrupt and angular outlines into 
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