The Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway Conservancy in Boston has announced a $1.5 million grant from the Tiffany & Co. Foundation to create a landscaped setting for a new carousel.

Awarded as part of the foundation's urban parks initiative, the grant will be used to create the Tiffany & Co. Foundation Grove at Carousel Park at the center of the mile-and-a-half-long greenway, which stretches from Boston's North End to Chinatown. Scheduled to open in September, the carousel will be surrounded by a mixture of red maples, oaks, magnolia trees, honey locusts, and sweet gum trees, with planted beds on the park's eastern, western, and northern perimeters. Revenues from the carousel, which artist and craftsman Jeffrey Briggs is sculpting from drawings submitted by Boston schoolchildren, will help fund the greenway's free public programs and other services.

"The Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway is a focal point for the city of Boston," said Greenway Conservancy board chair Georgia Murray. "This picturesque piece of land is a ribbon of lush gardens that provides beauty and enjoyment for everyone who lives and visits this city. The Tiffany & Co. Foundation Grove at Carousel Park will be a wonderful destination for everyone to enjoy."