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Title: The Horticulturist and journal of rural art and rural taste
Year: 1846 (1840s)
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Subjects: Gardening
Publisher: (Albany, N.Y. : Luthur Tucker
Contributing Library: UMass Amherst Libraries
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s a little over two feet. You may be sure I cutsuch trees down with some reluctance. I planted them myself P. Barry. ^-^. i8 Rustic A.rc?iway, Prospect Tark, Srooktyn, JV. T. Rustic Archway, Prospect Park, Brooklyn, N. Y. THROUGH the liberality of our city gubernators, waste commo«s become, in thehands of the skillful gardener, beautiful parks, and the paths, or cozy recesses, aredaily thronged with enjoying crowds of visitors. Prospect Park, only five years ago, wasa common pasture, a ball-ground for boys and rural sports. Suice then it has changed, asit were, by magic, into a succession of pleasing lawns and coves; paths lead, us on in-terminably through the long woods; rustic bridges are crossed; and we catch glimpses ofthe distant ocean from some elevated point, which overlooks the plain stretching away atour feer. Though far ft-om complete, and by no means affording opportunity yet for faircomparison with our own Centi-al Park, polished, as it were, with gems and jewels of rural
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IR beauty, still we see much to betoken taste, and a disposition to improve opportunities fornatural embellishments. The approach to the park from the avenue is through a circularrim of evergreen-sprinkled knolls, looking down upon a fountain of exquisite beauty. Upone path is seon a rustic-thatched summer-house, while, by another, leading between shrub-covered banks of living green, we reach a rustic archway, sketched in our illustration.The bridge is built of granite blocks, of delicate clearness, artistically placed, the interiorlined with cedar, polished with utmost care, and seats on each side, in the centre, and ateach end. The view on one side, as we approach the bridge, is like passing through aromantic dell, the banks being quite high, while, on emerging on the other side, a lovely lawnis beheld, stretching far away to the forest, and skirted with paths and roadway. JF^ranconia the Most S^rofitable Haspbeny. G-rapes in Oregon in 1869. EDITOR Horticulturist : I have just retur

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