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A RURAL WALK IN THE CITY. 
which art has made perfect pictures almost, and 
everything about them is disposed with as much 
taste as if they were destined to be immortalized 
on canvass by a Claude de Lorraine. 
A RURAL WALK IN THE CITY.—No. I. 
It is acknowledged, that New York is the foun¬ 
tain-head of America for literary, commercial, and 
political information, and the very best point for 
the publication of a leading journal on all these 
subjects; but when we started this paper, it was 
thought by many, that it was no place for issuing 
an Agricultural Periodical. We trust that some¬ 
thing has been done by us the past year to prove 
the contrary, and we hope, ere this volume is 
brought to a close, all will agree, that we could not 
have chosen a point in the Union, combining so 
many advantages for the successful publication of 
an agricultural journal as New York. We would 
respectfully ask our readers, is any place in Ameri¬ 
ca so open to agricultural information, either at 
home or abroad, as this city ? and where is the 
neighborhood abounding with such extensive green¬ 
houses, gardens, nurseries, orchards, and admira¬ 
bly-cultivated farms of every variety of soil ? Nor 
is this vicinity so deficient in good stock as many 
imagine; indeed, few states in the Union can make 
as great a show of splendid improved animals, as 
may be found within a few hours’ sail or ride of 
New York, and we trust, in the course of a few 
months, to make all these things somewhat more 
apparent to the public than they have hitherto 
been. 
View of the Park, Fountain, and City Hall, in Broadway.—(Fig. 4.) 
Of the many pretty rural spots in this city, such 
as the Battery, the Park, St. John’s, Union, and 
Washington squares, enclosed by strong ornament¬ 
al iron fences, and tastefully planted with trees, 
flowers, and shrubbery, we might dwell with 
much pleasure, and perhaps interest to such of our 
country readers as have never visited this populous 
place; but we at once pass over the subject, mere¬ 
ly adverting to some new features recently intro¬ 
duced into these fine public grounds, and these 
are the fountains supplied from the Croton Aque¬ 
duct, and throwing up numerous columns of water 
in beautiful jets d’eciu from 50 to 70 feet high, in 
every place appropr' jte to adorn them. 
