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well-planted gardens overlooking the marshes and fertile 
flats below. These delightful houses are becoming more 
rare every year, and it is fortunate that the grounds of 
one of the most attractive should have been preserved as 
a public park. The place was well cared for in old days, 
as the good specimen trees testify. A flourishing purple 
beech is growing up, also a sweet chestnut and several 
birches. A very old black mulberry still survives, 
although showing signs of age. There are other nice 
timber trees on the hillside, and among the shrubs an 
Arbutus me do, the strawberry tree, is one of the most 
unusual. This Park, though small, is quite unlike any 
other, and has much to recommend it to the general public, 
while in the more immediate neighbourhood it is greatly 
appreciated. 
Waterlow Park 
Undoubtedly the most beautiful of all the parks is 
Waterlow, the munificent gift of Sir Sydney Waterlow. 
Its situation near Highgate, above all City smoke; its 
steep slopes and fine trees; its old garden and historic 
associations, combine to give it a character and a charm 
of its own. It is small in comparison with such parks 
as Victoria, Battersea, or Finsbury, being only 29 acres, 
but it has a fascination quite out of proportion to 
its size. There are few pleasanter spots on a summer’s 
day, and at any season of the year it would well repay a 
visit. It is especially attractive when the great city with 
its domes and towers is seen clearly at the foot of the 
hill. London from a distance never looks hard and 
sharp and clear, like some foreign towns. The buildings 
do not stand up in definite outline like the churches of 
Paris looked down upon from the Eiffel Tower: the 
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