LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE 9 



one covering very properly the work of the profession in all 

 its branches. 



While this term and its present day significance are rela- 

 tively quite modern and undoubtedly the ancient tongues 

 contain no connotation of words used in exactly the sense 

 which we have in mind when we speak of landscape architec- 

 ture, still our studies of ancient landscape design reveal most 

 clearly that the principles of our art were more or less well 

 understood and followed in very early times. 



