It would need little to adapt the ground you have shown me to immediate public use as a park; and while thus readily available, it is susceptible of great improvement. For this purpose neither costly constructions nor elaborate methods of culture are wanted, so much as the pursuit of simple courses of husbandry, tending to the improvement of the soil and the development of the better elements of the natural growth. Thrifty management in this respect would result in more luxuriant and sustained verdure, and in harmonious, refined, and effective bodies of foliage.

A park of such sylvan beauty as would thus be gradually gained, mainly as an outgrowth under judicious selection and treatment of natural conditions, and interestingly distinctive of the locality,—situated on the margin of a picturesque bay, with outlooks upon the ocean,— would be one of rare interest, and the citizens of Quincy are to be congratulated on the opportunity of acquiring it as cheaply as seems to be practicable.