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shady road with well-grown trees. The artificial water 
with fancy ducks, in which is a wooded island with 
a Chinese pagoda, is a great delight for boating. The 
bathing-lake has still greater attraction, and thousands 
Pagoda on the Island, Victoria Park 
bathe there daily all through the summer months. 
It is said, as many as 25,000 have been counted on a 
summers morning. Bedding out was at its height 
when Victoria Park was laid out, so the flower-garden 
included some elaborate scroll designs which were 
suited to the style of carpet-bedding then in vogue. 
Now, though less stiff, the formal bedding is well done, 
