IV—Jessfield the True Beauty Spot: Nature's Kind Yielding to the Hand of Man: Memories of The Alpine Garden By Louis:
From Quinsan Square, the wand-ever among Shanghai's parks is of 'a will to flee toward Jessfield for, whereas, the '"on2 voice uttereth "Humanity," the other voice is primarily that of Nature, and at this season ig both musical' and distinct.
To begin with every garden show: its "imaginative origin, whether it intends to do so or not, and Jessfield, we ave tempted to believe, began as the happy recollection of generous: old English park, The Reports from out the past of Shang hai's municipal history do not say this in so many words, Rather, they speak often and feelingly of the need for 'a park in the western district" to fill the requirements 'a rapidly growing westward movement. Considerable print was expanded upon the theme of this wes! ern playground before the general public was entirely aware of the processes, And considerable talk. was certainly not wasted upon the then insufficient provisions of the only park in the western district which could truly be counted as such—the Public Recreational Ground at the Race Course. We hear it said in print that this ground was not for the man of quiet habits whose main enthusiasms were not for sport; that the very usages of the Race Course prevented any attempt create a landscape park or to in elude the shade of trees on the in-of furnishing those priceless bits built just for picnickers. Second, they want to acquire, and are acquiring, a Botanical Garden containing as large a representative col ection of Chinese trees and shrubs as possible, a collection which, were it. possible to present it completely, would have a rival in none of the largest and most interesting national collections of the world, Third, their imaginative eyes already visualize a de-curative section which might be the same bold style as the ideas of Lo Notre, the designer of Versailles, comprising large smooth law: statuesque avenues, fountains and formal gardens with suitable sta uary. So much for Jessfield's 1 ner circle.
Memories of Unkaza In 1914 the project, took definite form, A portion of the Unk Estate, comprising 120 mow, was purchased by tie Connell to form the nucleus of the Fork of tox and the pine trees and paddock fr Mr. E, Jenner Hoge's estate became a part of the pro} eral flavour of th ax well ax the part played by his famous estate, known to all riders in the hunt inthe old di Writing from a purely critical pect of the possibilities offered by the site, just before the, final desi sion on the part of the Council, Mr Macgregor, Superintendent of Pars and Open Spaces, expressed his views ay follows: "Such a park, pine woolls, groans of isolated specimens of large spreading trees only time could produce. Here we have woos and trees, the like of which could not be created on another site within 20 years, Morewser, some of the (reex ure noteworthy, one, a plane tree is probably the finest' nf its kind in China, 'There are ous good rik one walnut trees, ant some hazel bushes, whilst the' pine woods are the only ones of there din the vicinity of Shanzha: reminding one in a small way: of thi woodland scenes in the home-
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