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Park, is the wisdom and 
good taste of planting- 
trees that are locally 
adapted to the park. 
Palms are the pride of 
California. They flour- 
ish , in San Francisco. 
They are perfectly at 
home in the Golden Gate 
those from various points 
in the United States, that 
are virtually foreigners 
to the park thev are de- 
signed to embellish. 
These impressions of 
Golden Gate Park will 
never fade. They are 
deep and lasting. One of 
Palm Avenue, Sutro Heights. The Conservatory. The Japanese Tea Garden. 
VIEWS IN GOLDEN GATE PARK, SAN FRANCISCO, CAL. 
Park, hence are grand, in untrammeled beauty. The 
Norfolk Island pine here makes large, handsome trees, 
and the avenues are bordered with kinds of broad- 
leaved tropical plants and feathery foliaged, luxuriant 
pepper trees, oleander with dark, sharp-pointed, brist- 
ling leaves and big heads of beautiful pink and white 
flowers ; and orange trees that glitter in the sunlight 
and make the air fragrant, that harmonize and also 
contrast. The good' taste of selecting shrubs and 
trees well suited to the climate is obvious, to one see- 
ing parks in different cities, with imported plants and 
the most pleasing features is the Japanese Tea Garden. 
Characteristic, it has the diminutive waterfall, lakelet 
and water-lily tank ; the stone bridge, arching bamboo 
bridge and pavilion of bamboo. “Miniature,” is the 
one word that comes to mind, in passing through a 
Japanese garden. They dwarf, but do not mar, plants, 
structures and scenery. A full-grown orange tree and 
a twenty-foot cedar, will have, in contrast, a potted 
specimen of each, anywhere from twenty to a hundred 
years old, not over ten inches high ; and the minia- 
VIEW OF GOLDEN GATE PARK FROM THE TERRACE. SHOWING GARFIELD AND KEY MONUMENTS. 
