Parks and Tree-Lined Avenues: Read October 7th, 1891, at the Meeting of the Advance Club of Providence, R. I (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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Lord Beacon says that God Almighty first planted a garden. A statement which will not be doubted in the face of the record.

The description of Eden is not so extensive, however, as to serve in planting modern parks.

Our parks are extensive tracts of land dedicated to public use, laid out to be pleasant to the eye and to afford recreation in the open air. It is not correct to denominate a small square a park.

The parks of Europe were once the pleasure grounds of kings or of the nobility. And it is an astounding fact, that excepting the game of Baccarat, the zenith of pleasure is attained by the aristocracy of England, only by hunting with dogs, inoffensive animals, in the most magnificent forests in the world.

It certainly was a memorable May day when Charles the First opened Hyde Park, containing three hundred and ninety acres, to the citizens of London.

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