Wieniawa borders with the Saxon Gardens, a municipal park established in 1837 and designed by Feliks Bieczyński as an English landscape garden. The Saxon Gardens were a popular place of walks and recreation, also among Lublin Jews. This is how Jacob Glatstein remembered his youthful years:The last few weeks prior to departure, I passed my days in the Saxon Gardens, where spring was in full bloom. My friends and I went about Lublin with our heads held high, like the heroes of Hamsun's ‘Growth of the Soil’. [...]We strutted about like peacocks, as unreal as characters in literature. These were my Bazarovs, Nekhlyudovs, Karamazovs, Oblomovs, Sanins, Hamlets and Don Quixotes. We were surrounded by spirited Gentile life, rather, by several such, Russian and Polish, each at dagger’s point with the other. There were also the many strata of Jewish society divided like Hindu castes, from the Untouchable paupers to the Jewish rajas, who rode around in carriages drawn by fiery horses. The surrounding streets churned with tailors, shoemakers, tinsmiths, cigarette makers, laborers in brickyards and sugar factories, tanners, ironmongers, teachers, water carriers, maidservants, stocking makers, glove makers, seamstresses, musicians, hairdressers, tycoons, religious-court adjudicators, rabbis. Oblivious to all of it, we sparred with ready-made phrases and went home to mama for supper and some pocket money.The poet recited a poem about spring. [...]At night, we continued our walk to the Saxon Garden along class-divided routes, one street serving the proletariat, working men and women, the other, the route of high-school students of both sexes, externs, and assorted functionaries. Once inside the Gardens, we took to the dark paths, chasing every silhouette of a brown-skirted schoolgirl uniform.Jacob Glatstein, The Glatstein Chronicles, translated by Maier Deshell