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division they are placed, no matter under what color 
their different little ships may sail, horticulture after all 
furnishes all the trim to the sail, furnishes all the material 
of decoration, besides the necessary knowledge and intelli- 
gence to use the material for decoration successfully. 
Horticulture as an agent or as a medium for the decoration 
of grounds, works in two ways, in two directions, which 
may be said to run parallel to each other up to a certain 
point. One direction I may call ornamental gardening at 
large. This branch of horticulture takes into consideration 
only the ground on which it operates. It builds the ground 
which it has to treat into beautiful lines. It creates beau- 
tiful flower combinations, beautiful shrubberies, and deco- 
rates it with all the materials of ornamentation. Landscape 
gardening, on the other hand, takes not only the ground, 
but the sky itself into consideration. It creates sky-lands. 
It sets up those beautiful combinations of trees which form 
asylvan decoration of a certain stretch of ground. In 
this respect landscape gardening is entirely different from 
ornamental gardening. Ornamental gardening is part of 
landscape gardening, but it is not all of it. 
This ornamental planting, as it may be called, is the 
branch of horticulture which is most to be recommended to 
the rural population, because rural districts will not and 
cannot indulge in the more expensive process of ornamental 
gardening. Flowers and all expensive ornamentation are, 
with a great many, out of the question. But every man 
who owns a home in the country can ornament his home- 
stead with beautiful groves, with beautiful trees, with 
beautiful surroundings, at very little expense. And I see 
the greatest future for landscape gardening in the spread 
and advance of the knowledge of the most simple principles. 
of the art, by which the sylvan features of every spot of 
ground which is inhabited by an American citizen can be 
improved and made beautiful. And let us look for one 
moment at the benefits, at the blessings and changes which 
our rural districts may experience by thus beautifying the 
