ABSTRACT
In 1872, F. L. Olmsted and C. Vaux parted quite amicably to pursue their diverging careers, and in 1878 Olmsted resigned his post as landscape architect of Central Park, having battled to the end with the Tweed Ring. The description of the park was prepared in 1858 and amended with progress report footnotes by the partners in 1868. The 17,000 lots withdrawn from use for building purposes in the park itself, will greatly accelerate the occupation of the adjoining land. Only twenty years ago Union Square was “out of town;” twenty years hence, the town will have enclosed the Central Park. For the purposes of the avenue, the American elm naturally suggests itself at once as the tree to be used; and it is to be hoped that the fine effect this produces, when planted in regular lines, may in a few years be realized in Central Park.
