Central Park Sunday Wood Print

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Conservatory Water lies in a natural hollow near Fifth Avenue in Manhattan, New York City's Central Park, centered opposite East 74th Street. To the south lies the slope of Pilgrim Hill, surveyed by John Quincy Adams Ward's bronze of The Pilgrim set among Prunus serrulata and other specimen trees, notably a globose European Hornbeam and nine species of oak, all set in rolling lawn. The result is a somewhat manicured Park landscape, planned in deferential reference to the estate plantings of the owners of the mansions that once lined this stretch of Fifth Avenue. Later the naturalistic waterlily pond was reshaped as a model boat pond similar to that in the Jardin du Luxembourg, Paris. The formally shaped shallow basin set in a moulded curb of "Atlantic Blue" granite[4] is home water to a flotilla of model sailboats, made familiar in the pages of E.B. White's Stuart Little (1945) and recreated in the popular 1999 film. The Kerbs Boathouse (1954) in picnic Georgian taste houses resident...

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