APPENDIX 325 



His life is devoted to a reverent and loving study of the 

 most beautiful effects of nature and to the work of reproducing 

 them for the pleasure of man. 



My conclusion, then, is that we must look to landscape- 

 gardening for our inspiration in the new gospel of natural 

 beauty. It will teach us how a background of trees and a few 

 vines trained by loving hands will transform the baldest cottage 

 into a charming feature of a landscape. 



The wild growth along a country roadside may be as lovely 

 as anything painted by Rousseau. Let us teach the farmer 

 to see its beauty and to leave it untouched. 



The Women's Clubs have undertaken a noble work in teach- 

 ing the people to see and to love beautiful things. May their 

 efforts be crowned with success. May they redeem our coun- 

 try from the curse of bare and bald ugliness in the work of 

 man. May the time come soon when our streets shall be lined 

 with trees and shrubs ; when front yards, and back yards too, 

 shall be softened by masses of flowering shrubs ; and when 

 the farmhouses, the cottages, and the factories along our rail- 

 ways shall be redeemed by spreading trees and by shrubbery 

 and creeping vines ; when the European traveler in this coun- 

 try may be as much delighted by its beauty as he is now im- 

 pressed by its prosperity. 



PARKS AND LANDSCAPE-GARDENING 



A paper read at the Boston meeting of the American Park and Outdoor Art 



Association 



My first experience as a park commissioner was a surprise 

 and a shock. 



For about eight years Lincoln Park had been given over to 

 the politicians, with the usual result, -- extravagance, mis- 

 management, neglect and decay. The new board of com- 



