ZO J. H. MAIDEN. 



fountains and so on. All these buildings should be designed 

 so as to be neat and ornamental in appearance and in 

 harmony with their surroundings. 



I have already laid stress on the necessity for the inalien- 

 ability of lands reserved for park purposes. At present 

 parks are liable to be built upon, to be encroached upon by 

 railways or tramways, or to be otherwise contracted in 

 area. The temptation to the erection of a building in a 

 public park, be it museum, library, or picture gallery is 

 an insidious danger. The display of beautiful and useful 

 objects inside a building may be secured at an appalling 

 price in regard to nature's beautiful and permanent vistas 

 outside. The danger of the erection of buildings in 

 public parks is enhanced by the feeling that sometimes 

 obtains that the money value of a piece of park land need 

 not be taken into consideration. Thus if it be desired to 

 put a building, costing £10,000, on a piece of park land 

 whose market value is £5,000 ; the cost of that building is 

 £15,000, and it is not fair to represent that its cost is 

 £10,000. Furthermore, public buildings once erected in a 

 public park are not always limited by fixed boundaries as 

 is the case where the land has to be paid for. Oases have 

 been known in which the land taken from a public park has 

 been found inadequate, and additional ground has been 

 obtained by the simple process of putting back the fence. 



The question of the erection of buildings in public parks 

 is one of paramount importance to the public, and to the 

 landscape gardener. A building in a park is an item in the 

 landscape, and it must be subordinated to the park as a 

 whole. 



In Europe the relation of buildings to private and national 

 parks and gardens is well understood, and incongruities 

 are few. The United States has passed through the trial 

 stage which new countries such as ours have to pass 



