THE AIMS OF LANDSCAPE-GARDENING 3 



beautiful by making its home grounds, its road- 

 sides, its river banks, its parks, intrinsically better 

 in appearance and by opening the eyes of those 

 who fail to see such beauty as already exists. 



The art that accomplishes this has usually been 

 called landscape-gardening, and is the youngest of 

 the arts. It was given a special impetus in the 

 latter part of the eighteenth and the first part 

 of the nineteenth centuries. To be sure, beautiful 

 gardens and landscapes have existed since the time 

 of the Garden of Eden, but the desire to create 

 beautiful scenery and to treat its creation in a pro- 

 fessional way first appeared in Europe at a com- 

 paratively recent date. It was the result of the 

 effort to improve and organize the landscape. Rep- 

 ton, in the introduction to his "Sketches and Hints 

 on Landscape Gardening," published in 1795, said, 

 ''I have adopted the term Landscape Gardening, 

 as most proper, because the art can only be advanced 

 and perfected by the united powers of the land- 

 scape painter and the practical gardener." 



The powers of the practical gardener are such as 

 are common in all agricultural pursuits, and presup- 

 pose some knowledge of soils, fertilizers, tillage, 

 planting, spraying, and the care of plants in general. 



