Thursday Postcard Hunt - Parks and Gardens: Public Gardens

It's Public Parks today for Thursday Postcard Hunt. 

The lily pond at Shaw's Garden (now the Missouri Botanical Garden - search "lily pond" for more images from the past),

 St. Louis, MO 
postmark 1909

Portland, OR Classical Chinese Garden 

 Princes Street Gardens, Edinburgh, Scotland with Scott Monument in the background.
Postmark 1942

The famous Swan Boats in Boston Public Gardens, Boston, MA  This garden was the first botanical garden in the U.S.  Boston also has the honor of having the first public library.  It's not the oldest, but the first publicly funded free one.

Next week we visit Beaches.