. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Gardening. 1212 PARK v^^^ PLAN OF PROSPECT RAPK eOROUGM OF BROOKUVN. ^nnnnnnni ^i^fe 1642. Plan of Prospect Park, Brooklyn, to illustrate the large rural park. tunately become more so in proportion to the size of the cities within the last fifteen years through the de- velopment of trolley car lines and the use of the bic
. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Gardening. 1212 PARK v^^^ PLAN OF PROSPECT RAPK eOROUGM OF BROOKUVN. ^nnnnnnni ^i^fe 1642. Plan of Prospect Park, Brooklyn, to illustrate the large rural park. tunately become more so in proportion to the size of the cities within the last fifteen years through the de- velopment of trolley car lines and the use of the bicycle; but this increased accessibility of the country has been in part offset by the growth of the cities during the same period, and by the serious impairment of the rural quiet of the suburban regions through the same cause —im- proved cheap transportation. It is therefore necessary, if the people of large cities are to have easy access to refreshing rural scenery, that the municipality should withdraw from its taxable area a tract sufficiently large to provide such scenery within its own limits. The cost, both directly in money and indirectly through interfer- ence with the street system and with the normal com- mercial development of the land, is necessarily very great, and only the purpose of providing beautiful scen- ery, thoroughly contrasting with the city life and measurably sequestered from all its sights and sounds, can justify this cost, because almost all the other purposes served in public recreation grounds can be met more economically and far more conveniently in smaller areas distributed throughout the city. The essential characteristics of a well-designed and well- managed park of this class are, therefore, that all of the numerous other objects which it may serve are subordinated to the provision of beautiful scenery and to rendering this scenery accessible and enjoyable by large numbers of people, and that the subordinate ob- jects are met only in such waj
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