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mendous energies. I sometimes dream that another Michael 

 Angelo will rise among us and that he will find in landscape- 

 gardening the widest scope for the exercise of a mighty creative 

 genius. 



In this young country, with its exuberant energy, its increas- 

 ing wealth, and the development of good taste and a love of the 

 beautiful, the opportunities which the future of landscape- 

 gardening has in store for a great artistic genius seem almost 

 boundless. With vast wealth at his command, and, for ma- 

 terials, the earth, the sky, mountains, lakes, rivers, waterfalls, 

 forests and the flora of the whole earth, and with vistas bounded 

 by the limits of human sight, he can create pictures which will 

 be to natural scenery what the Hermes at Olympia is to the 

 natural man, not copies, but the assemblage of the perfections 

 of nature, beside which the greatest works of other arts will 

 seem as small as the oil paintings despised by Michael Angelo 

 beside the dome of St. Peter's. 



If landscape-gardening remains true to its mission, to de- 

 light the eye and heart of man by reproducing nature at her 

 best, this I believe to be her destiny, and then architecture 

 will be her willing handmaiden. 



