CHAPTER IV. 
SUBURBAN NEIGHBORHOODS COMPARED WITH COUNTRY PLACES. 
“ ’Twas town, yet country too ; you felt the warmth 
Of clustering houses in the wintry time.” — Geo. Eliot. 
1 ANDSCAPE GARDENING, on a grand scale, in this 
country, is only to be accomplished in public parks and 
^ cemeteries. Parks of considerable extent, as private 
property, are impracticable, by reason of the transient 
nature of family wealth, in a republic where both the laws and the 
industrial customs favor rapid divisions and new distributions. 
