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| Publication Type:
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| Author(s): | Caparn, Harold A. |
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| Title: | The preservation of landscape park scenery under city conditions |
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| Source: | Landscape Architecture. Vol. 20, No. 4, July 1930, p. 327-334. |
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| Publishing Information: | Boston, MA: Landscape Architecture Publishing Co. |
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| # of Pages: | 8 |
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| Keywords: | TIC Keywords: Parks; Lawn turf; Trees; Tree maintenance; Education; Perceptions; Public relations
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| Abstract/Contents: | Discusses park maintenance, focusing on the trees and the lawns. States that "most important of all things in the parks are the trees, and especially the old trees, for without them the park almost ceases to be." Also states that "the American public is quite incorrigible in its belief that park lawns are made to be walked, sat, or lain upon...the only way to preserve a lawn is to keep people off it when it begins to wear out until it has time to recover. But a good lawn will withstand a surprising amount of use as long as it is not of the destructive kind, such as baseball playing. Probably in heavy soils, which ever tend to pack down harder under continual trampling, the lawns should be made over every few years, and at such times such sand and vegetable matter as are adapted to make the soil more porous and less prone to solidify should be added." Also discusses the idea of protecting parks through education. |
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| Language: | English |
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| References: | 0 |
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| Note: | Pictures, b/w |
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| ASA/CSSA/SSSA Citation (Crop Science-Like - may be incomplete):
Caparn, H. A. 1930. The preservation of landscape park scenery under city conditions. Landscape Architecture. 20(4):p. 327-334. |
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