Micro Manage This! Lorne Park Traditional Cache
Micro Manage This! Lorne Park
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This is another cache in a series of micro's hidden in Brantford parks. All of them are stand-alone caches. The reasons for placing these caches are to increase the number of caches hidden in the Brantford area, to provide cachers with a brief history of the parks they will be visiting, and to give cachers the opportunity to enjoy some of the beautiful surroundings in "The Best Blooming City" in Ontario! Please take a pen or pencil with you.
Lorne Park is Brantford's famous showcase horticultural park and includes 1 carpet bed, several annual and perennial displays, a flag display featuring each provincial flag, as well as specimen trees and shrubs. Formerly part of the riverbed, it was low lying until it was gradually filled in after the first dikes were built.
In 1907, the City purchased the triangular on King Street. A plan was proposed for the laying out of the property on Oxford Street between Lorne Bridge and the City Yard as a boulevard street to be beautified on both sides. The park was called North Oxford Street Park. The name was later changed to Lorne Park after the Marquis of Lorne who was the Governor General of Canada from 1878-1883.
In 1914, a study by Dunnington Grubb, a famous landscape firm, suggested that the city buy the property to enlarge Cockshutt Park as far as Lorne Bridge.
By 1920 this land had been acquired to beautify the western entrance to Brantford at the river crossing.
In August 1930, the Pick-Wick Miniature Golf Course Limited was granted use of Lorne Park for a miniature golf course.
By 1936 Lorne Park was laid out in formal flower beds. At that time it also featured a bathing area.
The plantings on the south facing slope are changed annually to celebrate various important occasions. This is known as carpet bedding, an art which began in the 19th century. Victorian travelers collected delicate foreign plants and gardeners started them in greenhouses. In late spring they set them out in their gardens in intricate patterns, like oriental rugs. Displays like this must be carefully planned and executed and are very labour intensive. Today, Lorne Park is considered Brantford’s premier horticultural garden, and its carpet beds are among the finest in Canada.
Use extreme stealth as this park always has many muggles wandering around enjoying the beautiful gardens!
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