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stroll, to encounter a turbid stream of traffic. Each of 
these roads has, therefore, been so located and arranged 
on the adopted plan, that it may be carried through 
the Park on a grade that will allow the pleasure-drives 
to pass entirely over it at the necessary points of inter- 
section, without any obvious elevation or divergence 
from their routes. Short tunnels are preferred for this 
purpose to ordinary bridges, so that the spaces at the 
sides of the pleasure-drive may be thickly planted, and 
the view of the city-street below shut out from view r . 
To illustrate still further the treatment of the grounds, 
we have selected two of the more important points of 
view (Figs. 101 and 102, 103 and 101), showing the 
original condition of the land, and the improvements 
which are contemplated. 
In regard to the second description of Parks, we 
w^ould first remark, that in the United States, the most 
numerous class from whom the art of Landscape 
Gardening will receive attention, is composed of persons 
of moderate means. They are mostly merchants or 
professional men, who seek a refuge from the confined 
and unwholesome air of the city, or whose taste leads 
them to find agreeable recreation in the cultivation and 
adornment of a country residence ; who still maintain 
their business, or social connection with the adjacent 
city or town, but whose time and means which can be 
appropriated to their “ place,” are more or less limited. 
We have, indeed, a rapidly increasing number of 
men of fortune, whose estates are large enough, and 
whose means and liberality are adequate for the pro- 
duction of the highest results of the art ; but our best 
efforts must fall far short of the grand effects attainable 
under the English system of proprietorship, and the 
great majority of the practical exponents of American 
Gardening, will always be cultivators of few acres, 
whose taste, if correctly formed, will lead them to 
attempt only modest results. 
