. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. jgoi. The American Florist. 1309. VIEW FROM POINT PLEASANT PARK. HALIFAX. NOVA 8COTIA. Point Pleasant Park, Halifax, N. S. To one visiting Halifax, Nova Scotia, ? the first time there are apt to be many points of interest, natural, historical and othervyise. Yet not one of them perhaps will combine more numerous and varied attractions than Point Pleasant Park, or South Park as it is often spoken of locally. It occupies the extreme southern end of the peninsula upon which the city of Halifax is built, and comprises
. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. jgoi. The American Florist. 1309. VIEW FROM POINT PLEASANT PARK. HALIFAX. NOVA 8COTIA. Point Pleasant Park, Halifax, N. S. To one visiting Halifax, Nova Scotia, ? the first time there are apt to be many points of interest, natural, historical and othervyise. Yet not one of them perhaps will combine more numerous and varied attractions than Point Pleasant Park, or South Park as it is often spoken of locally. It occupies the extreme southern end of the peninsula upon which the city of Halifax is built, and comprises within its borders somewhat more than two hundred acres, principally woodland. The distinctive charm of the place lies in its naturalness; its entire freedom from ' the manufactured aspect so commouly found among parks. One feels a sense of restfulness and freedom from restraint as soon as he enters it, and only the mag- nificent roads, the few scattered seats placed at favorable points for enjoying the view and the occasional wayfarer, remind one of his proximity to a city and ;. the conventionalities of civilization. " The park lands belong to the imperial government of Great Britain, but in 1873 I were leased to the people of Halifax for a period of nine hundred and ninety-nine years, at the very reasonable rental of one shilling per year, the government retaining the right to make use of the 1 park for any military purposes and to erect such forts and other buildings as should be deemed necessary. In accord- ance with this right two small forts have been erected, which, with their cannon and redoubts, their stockades of pointed iron posts and their pacing sentinels are grim reminders of those old days when French and English and Indians hunted each other through the forests of Nova Scotia. There is another edifice within < the park of even greater historic and ; romantic interest to the stranger. This ' is the old Martello Tower, a round, stone building of decidedl
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