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...Public Garden, off the Arlington stop of the MBTA Green Line, is the Ritz-Carlton of Boston Parks. Carefully cut sidewalks, ornate bridges, ornamental trees, treehouses, flowers, and graffiti-less statues dot the park. (At least all this was true before "A Small Circle of Friends", of plastic snow fame, moved in to film last week...
Cross the street, however, and you're into another world. If the Public Garden is the pinstripe, the Boston Common, originally set aside for cattle-grazing, is the shirtsleeves. Skateboards fly down the hill near the State House, children wade in the Frog Pond, pigeons wander where they please, and the Moonie troops hawk their religion on the sidewalk...
...attitude toward grass, common lawn variety, points up the difference between the two parks. Sit down on the sod at the Public Garden, and it will be only minutes before a mounted policeman asks you to leave. Stray off the path at the Common, and no one, not even the pigeons, will notice...
...Public Garden is full of beautiful statues, including a classic George Washington on horseback pose near the Arlington Street end. The statuary pickings are leaner at the Common except for one Civil War scene directly across from the state House...
Make sure, no matter where your plan to spend the afternoon, that you walk a little ways down Commonwealth Ave., just off the far end of the Public Garden, where the magnolia trees will be in bloom this weekend...