Central Park Band Concert

Program.

     “The Saturday concert was yesterday attended by about sixty thousand persons, and the carriages were estimated at about three thousand. The lake boats were filled during the afternoon and evening, the voyagers being able to hear the music while on the water.

     The flowers are proving to be a great attraction. The roses and magnolias have disappeared; but others take their place immediately. A truly enjoyable and pleasing spectacle is at present afforded by a group of garden hydrangers (hydrangea Hortensis) in the eastern portion of the Ramble. Single specimins of the Hortensis, a deservedly well known plant, are frequently met with in pots, and are often cultivated about dwellings; but in the case above noted their effect is so much enhnced by the judicious arrangemnet of neighboring groups that the attention of every admirer of the beauties of nature should be invoked. In the background, in connection with a group of large leaved trees and shrubs (magnolias, sassfras, hydrangea arborescens, &c.) is a rock partially covered with ivy and other climbers, and at the foot of this, in charming repose and beauty, is seen the apparently carelessly distributed group of Hortensias, while in the foreground gently swells a meadow land with a few ornamental plants scattered over its surface. The effect is charming.

     The Terrace fountain was yesterday greatly improved by a plan which distributes the water into a hundred jets instead of one large stream. The spray thus formed cools the surrounding atmosphere, and the sun shining on the falling drops produces a brilliant rainbow or prism. The foot of the Terrace was yesterday ornamented by one of the confalens or characteristic banners. It was raised on the western oriental flagstaff, and the city arms were plainly set forth upon it by elaborate needlework. The State banner will soon be ready.

     The Second Avenue Company yesterday placed a number of new special cars on their line to accomodate the Brooklyn visitors to the Park, taking them up at Fulton and Peck slip ferries and landing them at Seventy first street.”