THE PUBLIC PARK. 



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CHAPTER X. 



PUBLIC PARKS AND GARDENS. 



Sect. I. The Public Park— Site of the Public Park— Laying out 



of Public Parks — Educational Institutions. 

 Sect. II. Street Gardens. 



Sect. III. Botanic Gardens — Special Purposes of Botanic Gardens — 

 Botanical Museum — Laying out of the Botanic Gardens. 



Sect. IV. Gardens belonging to Horticultural and Zoological Societies — 

 Gardens of Horticultural Societies — Laying out of Horticultural 

 Gardens — Horticultural Museum — Zoological Gardens. 



Sect. L— The Public Park. 



Public Pakks are large inclosed pieces of ground 

 in the vicinity of cities or towns, partly covered with 

 trees and shrubs, partly consisting of pastures, lawns, 

 and pleasure-grounds, with their usual decorations, and 

 provided with other means and appliances for the 

 recreation and amusement of the inhabitants. We 

 adopt the common title, Public Park, though some 

 recent examples seem to partake as much of the char- 

 acter of the pleasure-ground as of the park. Their 

 utility and importance in social and sanitary points of 

 view are only beginning to be adequately appreciated ; 

 and much of the progress which, in these respects, has 

 been made is due to the exertions of the late Mr. 

 Loudon, who, in various articles in the "Gardeners' 

 Magazine," was the first to draw public attention to 

 their value. In these papers, conceived in a most 



