The Evolution of the Street—111. 
A TYPICAL AVENUE OF A PRIVATE ESTATE, THE FORERUNNER OF THE MODERN PARKWAY 
The “ Avenue of the H}ueen" at Cascina, Italy 
The value of fountains, to close a street vista 
delightfully with a shining column of water, 
needs no explanation; and the worth of 
statues, to mark the street entrance to a 
planted open space whose vegetation is their 
background, is obvious it there be desire for 
the stately, imposing and splendid. Nor, 
clearly, will all this be incompatible with the 
requirements of a business street; rather, 
will it round out that thoroughfare in more 
completeness, adding the handsome, beauti¬ 
ful and social elements to what had been 
before only commercial or utilitarian. 
By degrees, then, we come, in considering 
the evolution ot even the business street, to 
a realization (very striking in this connection) 
that the time is not far distant when it will 
not be possible to discover a beautiful city 
that has not trees, nor to picture, save under 
exceptional conditions, a street among all the 
differentiated species of streets, that is satis¬ 
factory in its nobility if it have not in some 
HE PROVISION FOR VARIOUS KINDS OF TRAVEL 
The Bois de Boulogne—Paris 
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