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P A R K A X D C EM ET ER Y. 
Highland Park, Rochester’s Unique Park 
Yale and South Goodman .001 
Burke Terrace .10 
Atlantic Circle .0'.1 
Evergreen Park .38 
.\nderson Park .04 
Kelly Triangle , .001 
Pike's Quarry 3. 227 
Cobb's Hill (il.oO 
Carter Street Park 6.84 
Webster Avenue Park lO.oO 
Convention Hall Triangle .03 
Armory Park 2.908 
Washington Playground .73 
Morrison Park .098 
One of the most interesting and indi- 
vidual park systems in the country is that 
of Rochester, N. Y., and in Highland Park 
especially that city has a combined pleasure 
ground and botanic garden that is probably 
unique among American parks. 
The inception of the Rochester park sys- 
tem was the gift of Ellwanger & Barry, 
the nurserymen, of about 30 acres of choice 
ground in the Pinnacle Hills, adjacent to 
Mount Hope reservoir. In this tract were 
many valuable ornamental trees, and it was 
especially adapted for the pinetum and 
arboretum that have become famous. This 
gift was supplemented by the donors with a 
beautiful and substantial children’s pavil- 
ion, which occupies the most elevated part 
of Highland Park, and which was formally 
dedicated to the children of Rochester, ten 
thousand of whom were present, in 1900. 
Including the smaller parks and squares, 
as detailed below, Rochester’s park hold- 
ings consist of 1,603 acres, as follows in 
acres and fractions of an acre. 
Acres 
Genesee Valley Park .-139.83 
Seneca Park 213.0.5 
Maplewood Park 144.61 
Highland Park 107, .303 
Durand-Eastman Park 484 
Plymouth Park .7.5 
M'adsworth Park .85 
IMadison Park .85 
Washington Park 1.08 
Franklin Park 1.61 
Brown Square 4. .50 
Jones Park 6.72 
Lake View Park .5.18 
Douglass Triangle .66 
Sumner Park .58 
Beginning notably with the Highland 
Par'k Botanic Gardens, there has been no 
imitation or copying of other parks in the 
Rochester system. Each unit of that system 
has its indix'idnality. As seen today, these 
parks are the product of one short genera- 
tion, and taken as a whole the\' form a 
monument to the civic patriotism of the 
men who have developed them. 
The broad term park is scarcely adequate 
to designate Highland Park. 
It was the determination of Vice-Presi- 
dent William Crawford Barry, who was 
one of the members of the first Board of 
Park Commissioners and was long the 
chairman of the Highland Park Committee, 
that Highland Park not only should equal 
in its popular charms any park in the United 
States, hut, in its scientific features should 
rank in importance with the great .Lrnold 
.Arboretum of Harvard Lhiiversity. 
Rochester has for many years been for- 
tunate in that Dr. Charles Sprague Sargent, 
director of the Arnold Arboretum; Super- 
intendent Calvin C. Laney and Assistant 
Superintendent John Dunbar have co-op- 
erated with Chairman Barry in developing 
the technical features of Highland Pine- 
tum and Arboretum. In all but area, High- 
land Park possesses all the technical fea- 
tures of the Arnold Arboretum. 
The number of species and varieties of 
trees, shrubs, and vines in the Rochester 
park system to date is about 3,880 Of 
this number about 3,350 are contained in 
Highland Park, and .530 varieties of haw- 
thornes in Genesee Valley Park. 
The numlrer of species and varieties in 
the pinetum in Highland Park is about 300. 
The number of the species and varieties in 
CHION.AXTHUS RETTSA, OR CHINI-^SE FRINGE; SAID TO BE THE ONLY SPECIilEN 
OF THIS PLANT IN THE t'NITED STATES THAT HAS BLOSSOMED. 
.JAPANESE LARCH TREKS IN PINETFM, HIGHLAND PARK, ROCHESTER. N. Y. 
