I do not knowbut it is a wonderfully dry climate, and swords are there kept, cherished, and bequeathed, even more religiously than were the Stately Homes of England in that once prosperous land, in the days before park, covert, pleasaunce, forest, glade, dell, and garden became allotments, and the spoil of the "Working"-man.

The Central Park is an anomaly to those who have not deeply studied the tendencies of popular governments.

And of a night, now, the parks, the byways, and the waterside were the haunts of young loversstealing out together, arms round each other's waiststhe future of the world in their trembling hands.

Parks, belts, arboretums, and clipped hedge-rows, however useful as contributing to pleasure, convenience, or science, are not the most interesting features of wood-scenery.

The station stood just beyond the walls, with a park at one side of it, but the park had become a timber deadfall.

Central Park was a distant forest, and the lower part of the city a foreign land.

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Evidently the Yellowstone Park is a natural nursery and breeding ground of the elk, which here, as said above, far outnumber all the other game put together.

The park is a thoroughfare, and the circumstances by which this public claim was established are worthy of record, as a specimen of the justice with which the rights of the community are upheld in this country.

The Central Park is an expanse of wild country, well crumpled so as to form ridges which will give views and hollows that will hold water.

Hyde Park was one umbrageous darkness, edged by long lines of golden light.

" "That park is a relic of old Spanish days and one of the most historic spots in San Francisco," I said severely.

Two of the Signora's later pictures are "Arum Italicum," exhibited at Milan in 1881, and a "Park at Capodimonte," shown at the International Exposition in Romethe latter is a brilliant piece of work.

With the forty acres that compose the park are about one hundred and twenty-five people, living exactly as their forefathers lived and practicing the primitive customs that prevailed two centuries ago in the agricultural districts of the kingdom.

Parks is a steady man, who loves a rough-and-tumble.

Mells Park (J.F. Horner) is a plain freestone mansion, standing in some well-timbered grounds at the farther end of the village.

The Bois Park at night is a mystery maze and lovely beyond adjectives.

In any event, park, woods, meadow, garden, even the mountain sides are green, a vari-colored green, and interspersed with an abundance of flowers.

This park was the scene of a great deal of bloodshed in 1791 on account of political disputes between the aristocratic and democratic parties, or rather between the admirers and imitators of the French Revolution and those who dreaded such innovations.

On a fine bright day of May or early June, and days of May or early June are often as bright in London as anywhere, the Park is probably the greatest display of wealth and of the pride of wealth in the world.

The words park, clump, arboretum, and the like, are mere technical terms, that do not come into use in a general description of Nature.

Some years ago, ere time and taste Had turn'd our parish topsy-turvy, When Darnel Park was Darnel Waste, And roads as little known as scurvy, The man who lost his way between St. Mary's Hill and Sandy Thicket, Was always shown across the Green, And guided to the parson's wicket.

The kangaroos have removed into their new house, and their park has been relaid, although they still look unsettled.

Golden Gate Park is the aureole of San Francisco's recreational haunts.

HOLYROOD, an abbey founded at Edinburgh in 1128 by David I., and dedicated in honour of the Holy Cross, a casket of gold shaped like a cross brought to the country by St. Margaret in 1070; a palace was afterwards attached, which became the chief seat of the Scottish sovereigns of the Stuart dynasty; the parks around were at one time a sanctuary for debtors.