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The most famous park in the whole Rocky Mountain System is Yellowstone Park (q.y.) in Wyoming, now a government reservation. The ranges on the boundaries of the Parks and rising from the Park Valleys, are grouped together as the Park Ranges or Park System. The mountains so designated are bounded on the north by the Laramie Plains, and on the east by the Great Plains. The southern and western boundaries are indefinite. Other noted parks are Monumental Park and the Garden of the Gods, near Colorado Springs. The 500 acres are covered with an extraordinary rock formation, like giant spires and pillars, and some like vast cathedrals. The Yosemite Valley (q.v.) is often classed with the Parks.

If the intermediate populations are regarded as separate races or racial hybrids, the difficulty becomes still greater, because instead of two indefinite boundaries one has several. Nor is it helpful to say, as some authorities have attempted to do, that pure Nordics, Alpines, and Mediterraneans existed at some time in the past, but have since become mixed and intermingled owing to hybridization. There is no evidence that these or any other pure races ever existed except in the imagination of some race classifiers; the facts available are rather against this view.

WITH GARDENS a sense of enclosure is important. On small lots the boundaries may be those of the property or even plantings or other pleasant features on a neighbor's property, for when I speak of boundaries I mean not those of the lot but those that limit the view. On larger grounds the boundaries to views may be well within the property lines.