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and small trees. After meeting the walk from the upper 

 left-hand gate, it crosses an open lawn edged with hand- 

 some isolated trees and shrubs, and enters the most heav- 

 ily wooded part of the little park. This wood should be 

 planted thickly with forest-trees for dense shade, even 

 though the grass be discouraged thereby. Its character 

 should be strongly, and distinctively that of a wildwood. 

 The idea of this plan throughout is to embody unity of 

 design as a whole, yet to give individual strength to 

 every feature, thus wholly avoiding the tedious repeti- 

 tions in fig. I. 



Returning to the division of the walk at the extreme 

 left side, and proceeding along the outer course, we reach 

 the coniferous or evergreen section of the park. Here 

 are planted heavy masses of 

 evergreens along the street (at 

 top of engraving), with single 

 specimens and clumps here and 

 there on the lawn away from 

 the heavier groups, and some 

 near the walks. For any part 

 of the town reasonably free from 

 smoke, there would be no diffi- 

 culty in selecting coniferous 

 trees, dwarf and tall, from the 

 flat, creeping junipers and 

 spruces to tall spiral forms; from 

 golden arbor-vitses to blue 

 spruce and glaucous cedars there 

 is room for wide and beautiful 

 contrasts. Where the two walks 

 cross in the upper left-hand part 

 would be an excellent place for 

 a large arbor, spanning their 

 junction and covered with a va- 

 riety of strong climbing vines, 

 including the Chinese and other 

 wistarias, Dutchman's-pipe, hon- 

 eysuckles, actinidias, clematises, 

 etc. The outer walk, which we 

 have traversed through the ar- 

 bor and the evergreens, passes 

 through the grove and near the 

 upper right-hand place of exit 

 and entrance. Here the ap- 

 proach to the park is, for the 



sake of variety, made to differ in character from the other 

 three entrances. There are two gateways, and directly 

 back from them is an oval bed amid the grass, and filled 

 with bright plants and flowers. 



From this small oval bed in the upper right-hand cor- 

 ner of the park two walks, one to the right, the other to 

 the left, lead into the heavily wooded spots, and uniting 

 with other walks form a large section, which may be 

 called " The Oval." It is somewhat open across its cen- 

 ter lengthwise, but at the sides grow numerous forest- 

 trees. 



Beyond, (or, in the figure, just below) the oval section is 

 ' ' The Shrubbery " — some large beds, irregular in outline, 



cut into the grass as shown, and planted with a fine as- 

 sortment of hardy flowering and evergreen shrubs, besides 

 some of the more desirable hardy flowering plants. Be- 

 sides the beauty and variety that could thus be secured 

 in flowers, there should be another kind of attraction in 

 the greatly diverse forms of growth, and of forms and 

 color of foliage in the hardy shrubs and plants. In 

 the margins of the same beds might be grown annuals 

 and bulbs in varied assortment. Should it be deemed 

 prudent to surround such a section by a guard against 

 the intrusion of unruly persons and quadrupeds, we would 

 suggest the use of heavy wire netting, which would be at 

 once effective and cheap, while if it were painted a dull 

 green it would not detract materially from appearances. 



Plan of Fig. i Considerably Modified. 



Such a collection of choice hardy flowers, the stock of 

 which is gathered from all quarters of the globe, and 

 with the name and habitat of each kind indicated on a 

 label, should prove quite as interesting, much less costly , 

 and far more in keeping with the purposes of a park than 

 collections of animals in cages — a feature which many 

 park managers seem prone to adopt, not to say overdo. 



Beyond the shrubbery proper, after crossing a walk, we 

 find a continuation of the shrubbery section. This we 

 would like to see devoted to a rose-garden, cutting the 

 beds into the lawn, as were those of the larger section 

 just considered. Good selection and proper methods of 

 cultivation should secure bloom here from June until 



