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Corner beds with agave in boxes are again evident, while the bed along the walk shows a regular shrubby growth. The beds around the King Fountain are planted in alternating light and dark tone plants, but are only partially visible making their form is unclear. The clarity of this view shows that another two garden beds mirror the position and planting of the one planted to castor bean, seeming to indicate all four beds, centered in each of the four lawn panels, are matching. The massing of the trees in the background shows a variety of types but a density of overall coverage and enclosure of the space. Two additional postcard views portray the elaborate gardens of the early and mid twentieth century. View 8 shows linear and circular beds in early sunimar with Agave accents. Note the cobblestone swale un the foreground and the numerous benches in the center are. View 9, circa 1950, is a late summer view with Canna bloom in the foreground and annual bedding at the fountain. These six views together reveal the earlier organization of the beds and the types of plantings used in the King Fountain during the early 20th century.
The Croquet Lawn is an irregular, curvilinear space bounded by park drives and centered on a large rectangle, the Croquet Lawn area. To the east it is edged by the Mall, which parallels one side of the interior rectangle. The Croquet Lawn and Mall areas to the north appear nearly level while the remaining edge spaces to the west and south slope away and down from the central lawn. The slope to the south provides some separation from the King Fountain area. Two available views give a sense of the organization and planting of the Croquet Lawn area. Both of these views include the Croquet Shelter, now lost. Figure 8 is a postcard view with the shelter and a flagpole in the foreground. It appears to be oriented to the east. The open lawn area is edged with mature shade trees and one larger tree canopy appears behind the roof of the shelter. Elms are discernable by their shape. A second view, Figure ~, is from the Egerton collection and shows the area looking west. The large tree in the former view is on the left, while three elm trees edging the space along the west walk are visible, this row is incomplete. An additional mass of foliage, at a lower height is in the background of the view and could be the shrub collections edging the space to the west. These two views generally reinforce the tree in lawn organization of this area shown in the Egerton plan in Figure 1. Two views of the Burns Statue, located in the southeast corner of the Croquet Lawn area reveal the paths and plantings that functioned as a setting for the monument. The first is a view looking northeast from an Annual Report showing the area shortly after completion in a photograph taken to accompany the 1891 park plan. A circular path surrounds the monument and small shrubs are planted in the lawn near the path edge. The shrubs appear to be young and are regularly spaced about six feet apart, around the back half of the monument path. Only one shrub in the corner appears in the front half, although others may be missing from the photo. Trees are seen informally spaced in the background. The second view is a later one looking northwest with the Mall trees in the background. It shows on shrub in the foreground path corner, possibly a Duetzia gracilis , and two clearly behind the statue. These two are four to five feet high, touching each other and they are in bloom. They appear to be Spirea thunbergi or Spirea varthouttei , judged by the arching form and small flowers in clusters. A lower shrub, perhaps another Duetzia gracilis , is seen on the left of the view at another corner location. The plantings around the monument appear to have been limited to shrubs, of two types, with the smaller Duetzia at the corners and the larger Spirea around the back of the monument.
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