22 LANDSCAPE-GARDENING 



fession in the United States. Even now, but a 

 small percentage of all the people know that there 

 is such a profession, and of those who have heard 

 of it only a few know what it really is. Before 

 it reaches its full development, it also must become 

 a part of the life of the people. 



If, as stated above, this art of landscape-garden- 

 ing is growing, what will be its final attainment ? 

 What will it do for the people ? 



If properly guided in its growth, it will teach them 

 to see the beauty of nature, the beauty of this world, 

 of which many are now as ignorant as the ten-year- 

 old boy was of the beauty of sunsets before his 

 attention was called to them. 



It will bring about a different spirit with regard 

 to beauty wherever seen. There are many who 

 regard anything which is beyond or outside of 

 what is generally called "practical' 1 as something 

 foolish, wasteful, and effeminate, not realizing 

 that it is the beautiful which makes life worth 

 living. 



It will open the eyes of farmers and their families 

 to the beauty that is always around them in the 

 sky and in their fields, and, if they possess them, in 

 their wood-lots, their orchards, springs, streams, 



