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appears now, there is hardly a line or bit of vegetation, except 

 the older trees, that has not been placed by the hand of man 

 where we now see it. Fifteen or twenty years ago this part 

 of the town was one of the ugliest sights imaginable. A 

 brackish stream struggled along through the tangled masses 

 of sedges and swamp land. Now it has the beauty of the 

 most restful park, but every particle of it is the result of 

 design. This is not landscape gardening, but landscape ar-~ 



BOSTON, MASS., RIVERWAY PARKWAY 



chitecture, the work of a "master artisan in matters pertain- 

 ing to land." 



Real estate allotments and new residential town sites 

 offer vital and interesting fields of endeavor for the landscape 

 architect. Here we may get much that is helpful in the way 

 of suggestion from the present day work in these lines being 

 done in England and Germany. But these so-called English 

 garden cities and the German suburban townsite develop- 

 ments can again be copied only in the principles involved. 



