LANDSCAPE GARDENING 



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ELEMENTS OF LANDSCAPE DESIGN 



AT the present time in America people are much 

 more sensitive to their home surroundings, as far 

 as appearances are concerned, than they were 

 thirty years ago. Then their intelligent interest 

 stopped with bricks and shingles; now it is often 

 carried as far as the street, and the grounds receive 

 a fair share of attention. Perhaps one reason for 

 this change is the American's ever-increasing 

 amount of foreign travel, with the chance to behold 

 not only the masterly gardens of antiquity, but 

 those of modern times as well. By contrast, his 

 own home surroundings have revealed to his edu- 

 cated sense their uncompromising ugliness. 



General landscape-work is apt to appear long 

 after the pioneer stage in any country. In the last 

 twenty years, however, a strong school of land- 

 scape-men has risen in this country, and their work 

 has been a very potent factor in the education of 



