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It has not been possible within the necessary limits of such 

 a paper as this to more than enumerate some of the salient 

 features of this profession and the preparation necessary for 

 the practice thereof. Inadequately and briefly as this has 

 been done, however, the aim has been to make clear that while 

 as its leaders contend this our beloved profession of landscape 

 architecture is most assuredly one, if not in its comprehen- 



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siveness, the greatest of all the fine arts, its sure foundation 

 and its never failing handmaiden is science. There has been 

 perhaps much too strong a feeling in the past on the part of 

 some of the present-day leaders in this profession that the 

 influence of science in connection with this or any other fine 

 art is of necessity more or less contaminating. Art and 

 science have been regarded as antagonistic. But are they? 

 Certainly the greatest painters, sculptors and composers have 



