largest of 1,350. Of the latter, one only, Tower
Grove park, containing 277 acres, is yet at all
adapted to use. A parkway 120 ft. wide and
12 m. long is under construction. Cincinnati
has a little over 400 acres of public recreation
ground, 207 being in Eden park, which lies on
undulating ground commanding fine distant
views, and 168 in Burnett wood, which has a
similar surface with a fine growth of indigenous
trees. There will be about 3 m. of pleasure
road in each. Cincinnati possesses in Spring
Grove cemetery the best example in the world,
probably, of landscape gardening applied to a
burial place; and her parks are likely to be
improved with the same taste and skill. San
Francisco holds 1,100 acres of land for recreaation
grounds, of which over 1,000 acres is
in one body, called the Golden Gate park.
This borders on the ocean, and is very bleak
and partly covered with drift sand; no trees
grow upon it except in an extremely dwarfed
and distorted form, and turf can only be
maintained by profuse artificial watering; but
wherever shelter, fertility, and sufficient root
moisture can be secured, a low, southern,
almost subtropical vegetation may be maintained
throughout the year, of striking luxuriance and
beauty. Experiments in arresting the sand
and forming a screen of foliage on the shore
have been made with promising success. If
steadily, boldly, and generously pursued, with a
cautious humoring of the design to the unique
natural conditions, and skilful adaptation of
available means, a pleasure ground not at all
park-like, but strikingly original and highly
attractive, may be expected. Nearly 7 m. of
carriage road has already been formed on the
ground, and it is much used. A parkway
stretching 3 m. along the shore is provided
for, the reservation for it ranging from 200
to 400 ft. in breadth. For other information
concerning the parks mentioned above, see the
articles on the cities where they are situated;
and for accounts of the so-called national parks
see Wyoming (territory), and Yosemite.
