1911] The Ottawa Naturalist 139 



joint meeting of the Ottawa Field-Naturalists' Club and the 

 Ottawa Horticultural Society in the Assembly Hall of the 

 Normal School. His subject was "Landscape Gardening," and 

 by means of a fine set of lantern slides he showed the large 

 audience which had gathered to hear him the proper relationship 

 between architecture and landscape gardening, and in a very 

 lucid explanation of the principles of landscape art, as expressed 

 by the pictures which illustrated his lecture, he was able to 

 impress his hearers with the importance of his subject. 



Civic art, was first taken up as a branch of landscape 

 architecture. It was shown that the same principles apply in 

 civic art as apply in good landscape gardening. The main re- 

 quirement is that the work should be dene in a svstematic and 

 orderly way, instead of an unsystematic and disorderlv way, 

 and that the aim is to achieve the maximum of beauty combined 

 with a maximum of utility. Neither can civic art ignore beam v. 

 These two elements are not antagonistic in any case, but co- 

 operate with one another. 



Ottawa, as the capital city of a great nation, deserves 

 special development along the lines now laid out by civic art. 

 It has an unusually fine location, on the banks of rivers and on 

 ground of varied topography. It would naturally profit bv the 

 experience of the other great capital cities of the world, such as 

 Berlin, Washington, Vienna, Paris, London. A number of 

 lantern slides were shown to illustrate the possibilities of beautiful 

 civic development, as shown in the cities mentioned. Adequate 

 space should be reserved for public buildings and streets and open 

 places so arranged as to give ample effect to the large public 

 buildings which will be required ir> Ottawa. Another point in the 

 development of this city must be the preservation and beautifica- 

 tion of the river fronts. Of these, Ottawa has several miles and 

 has already begun, in a commendable manner, to preserve and 

 improve them. Such preservation should be extended and the 

 methods of improvement should be brought up to date. Aside 

 from 1 his, 1 he city should reserve ample park areas, which should 

 be selected with respect to the preservation of types of native 

 scenery in the immediate neighborhood. At the present time, 

 the park areas in Ottawa are distinctly inadequate. Any fore- 

 cast of the fu ure makes it certain that much larger areas should 

 be secured at no distant date. These should be secured at once, 

 both because the selection is easier now and because the cost of 

 land is. much less. 



Landscape gardening as applied to domestic life was then 

 discussed and illustrated by various lantern slides showing types 

 of gardening in continental Europe, England, Japan, the United 

 States and Canada. 



