MUNICIPAL PARKS 
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with a gently sloping lawn in front, park-like meadows, 
and fine trees beyond the dividing sunk fence, and distant 
peeps of the country towards Harrow. The approach 
from the Finchley Road is by an avenue of chestnuts, and 
a flat paddock on one side is a hockey and cricket-ground 
for ladies. There are some really fine oaks, good beeches, 
ash, sycamore, Spanish chestnuts, and Scotch firs; but the 
most remarkable tree is a very fine tulip, which flowers 
profusely nearly every year. At the bottom of the Park 
an undisturbed pond, with reedy margin, is much fre¬ 
quented by moor-hens. The valley above is railed off for 
some red deer, peacocks, and an emu, while three storks 
are to be seen prancing about under the oak trees in the 
open Park. The most attractive corner is the kitchen- 
garden, which, like the one in Brockwell, has been turned 
into an extremely pretty flower-garden. On one side is a 
range of hothouses, where plants are produced for bed¬ 
ding out, and a good supply of fruit is raised and sold 
to the refreshment-room contractor on the spot. Two 
sides have old red walls covered with pear trees, which 
produce but little fruit, and the fourth has a good 
holly hedge. The vines from one of the vineries have 
been planted out, and they cover a large rustic shelter, 
and have picturesque though not edible bunches of 
grapes every year. The way the planting of roses, 
herbaceous and rock plants, and spring bulbs is arranged 
is very good; but the same misleadingly-worded notice 
with regard to the plants of Shakespeare is placed here 
as in the Brockwell “ old English garden.” 1 There 
is a nice old quince and other fruit-tree standards in 
this really charming garden. In another part of the 
grounds there is an orchard, not “improved” in any 
1 See p. 171. 
