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Title: The Gardeners' Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette
Year: 1850 (1850s)
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Subjects: Ornamental horticulture Horticulture Plants, ornamental
Publisher: London: Published for the Proprietors
Contributing Library: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, McLean Library
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o sweep gracefully round the new court-yard, whilea similar bend will be given to the line of roadfrom Pimlico. In carrying out this plan a smalltriangular morsel of the useless naked ugly end ofthe enclosure in St. Jamess Park will be cut off;the water will not be approached within 100 feet,and no interference whatever will take place withpublic convenience. On the contrary, public conve-nience will be consulted, and the appearance of oneof the few public buildings in London which peoplecare to look at, be wonderfully improved. These are the exact alterations which are tocreate universal disgust, to mar the beauty of theparks, to curtail their proportions with unheard-ofcruelty, and to cut oft one-third of the whole lengthof the lake ! Surely a mares nest of such dimen-sions was never found before. Can any one doubt that instead of the beauty ofthe parks being marred it will be very greatlyimproved ? The appearance of Buckingham Palacehas been the subject of some just and much unfaic
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a couple of ominous surveying rods have been ob-served in the Green-park; some costermongerscarts have been detected emptying themselves oftheir loads in front of the palace; and, in connec-tion with this, the famous marble arch has begun todisappear. Hence it has been inferred that LordSeymour is aboutto perpetrate some official enormity.^^ According to the Times, the Commissioners arecoolly proceeding to occupy a large slice of thetrreen-park temporarily, and a section of St. Jamess-park en, permanence; the public is hereafter totUscoyer, to the universal disgust, that the beautyot both parks has been marred, and the proportionsof one cruelly curtailed. Ministry and Parlia- cut out of the Green-park and St. Jamess-park ;and an assurance that the ornamental water is to becurtailed, From the clearance already made atthe upper end, says the Times, we discover thatone-third of the whole length of the lake would becutoff. It is diflicult to conceive how a journal, with suchmeans of ascer

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