PARK AND CEMETERY. 
A VIEW IN RIDGEWOOD PARK, BROOKLYN. 
In our last issue two views of Prospect Park, 
Brooklyn, were given, which displayed more par- 
ticularly the parts played in park adornment by ar- 
chitecture and statuary, features which serve to 
bridge the interval between the pure landscape ef- 
fects of the park and its urban surroundings and 
approaches. Such features are being introduced as 
opportunity offers and funds are appropriated in 
the larger communities, and the work presents a 
rich field for architectural and sculptural effects in 
culiar quiet which permeates the atmosphere of the 
copse, finds a response in human nature like to 
nothing else, and there is no part of park work 
likely to be more gratefully appreciated than the 
preservation of a certain proportion of the wooded 
landscape in every system of park development. 
Ridgewood Park, in which the view herewith 
given is taken, is one of the easterly parks. It sur- 
rounds the distributing reservoir of the city, and 
contains twenty-six acres. While small, it is com- 
paratively distinctive, and having remained until 
A LEAFY WAY, RIDGEWOOD PARK, BROOKLYN, 
positions where the several arts may meet and 
join in an attractive harmony. 
But there are other parks in Brooklyn, whereas 
yet the hands of the gardener and forester have left 
few marks, and where nature still, to a large extent, 
holds full sway; that is to say, beyond the laying 
out of roads and development of paths and by- 
ways the woods appear as natural as one’s concep- 
tion may suggest. That this is a feature of park 
work worthy of careful consideration and culture, 
the natural instincts of man unquestionably assert. 
There is a fascination in a sojourn in the woods un- 
deniably pronounced, from the influence of which 
few are free. The footfall in the leaves, the song 
of birds, the whisperings of the foliage and the pe~ 
now more or less inaccessible to the masses, it re- 
tains certain features of novelty in its condition, 
which must make it attractive. It is so situated, as 
well, as to command views unsurpassed in extent 
and variety, including the beautiful landscape scen- 
ery of Long Island on the one hand, and on the 
other the varied and broken coast line made by bay 
and inlet with the broad expanse of the Atlantic 
Ocean beyond. 
Besides the natural features of this park con- 
siderable planting out has been done, and on ac- 
count of its splendid altitude and the possibility it 
offers for lighting effects in connection with the city 
reservoir, which it partially surrounds, a system of 
electric illumination is now being carried out. 
