HISTORICAL NOTICES. 
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by the proprietors, not to exceed ten dollars per acre. 
The fee of the Park is in three trustees and their 
successors, and its care and embellishment is entrusted 
to a “ Committee of Management,” who are elected 
annually by the lot owners. 
Some of the advantages which are aimed at, in what 
may be termed the social park, may be thus stated : 
1. The securing* a neighborhood free from nuisances 
and an inferior class of buildings. 
2. The rural character of the grounds is preserved, 
instead of assuming the rectangular forms of a village, 
which are a repetition of city lots on an inferior scale. 
3. The different places can be laid out with mutual 
reference to each other, so that the subdivisions are not 
apparent in a way detrimental to the general effect. 
4. A tine entrance and approach road can be secured, 
even where the private grounds are small, and the 
amount appropriated to these embellishments limited. 
5. The Park affords extensive drives and walks for 
the exclusive use of the proprietors, with a variety in 
the ornamental grounds unattainable on places of ordi- 
nary magnitude. 
To illustrate the general mode of treatment of the 
private grounds adjoining the Park, we give, in Figs. 107 
and 108, plans of one of the sites of five acres. It is 
situated on a gentle knoll, and the house, which is in 
the Tuscan manner, occupies the summit, and com- 
mands fine distant views in all directions. The place 
is laid out in the natural style, by that very clever 
Landscape Gardener, Mr. Bauman, and an appropriate 
connection between the house and the surrounding 
grounds is maintained by an artificial terrace, fifteen 
feet wide at the top, and ornamented with vases, etc. 
The plans may serve, also, to show the method of 
grouping the trees — their positions, and the varieties 
used, being given in the Table of References, page 573. 
Another phase of improvement in our rural taste is 
the increasing care and attention bestowed upon the 
