General principles for public gardens

1597. The general principles on which public gardens are laid out should, as much as possible, combine amusement with improvement. Hence, the trees and shrubs planted round public promenades should be arranged and named so as to form an arboretum, so that persons frequenting the promenade may become familiarised with the forms of the plants, and learn their names, without taking any trouble to acquire them.

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