PREFACE. 



THE term "Landscape Architecture" is objectionable, as being 

 only figuratively expressive of the art it is used to designate. I 

 make use of it, under protest, as the readiest means of making myself 

 understood, in the absence of a more appropriate term. 



If the art is ever developed to the extent I believe to be within 

 its legitimate limits, it will achieve for itself a name worthy of its 

 position. Until it does so, it is idle to attempt to exalt it in the 

 world's estimation, by giving it a high - sounding title. My object in 

 these few pages is simply to show that, by whatever name it may be 

 called, the subdivision and arrangement of land for the occupation 

 of civilized men, is an art demanding the exercise of ingenuity, 

 judgment and taste, and one which nearly concerns the interests of 

 real estate proprietors, and the welfare and happiness of all future 

 occupants. 



A considerable portion of the " Essay on Forest Planting on the 

 Great Plains," is made up from articles I have contributed from time 

 to time to agricultural and scientific papers. All the correspondence, 

 memoranda, etc., which I had collected on the subject for two years, 

 during which I was engaged in its investigation, were destroyed in 

 the great fire of October 9, 1871. The present essay has been pre- 

 pared from recollection, with the aid of some of my previously pub- 

 lished articles which had been preserved by friends, together with 

 liberal quotations, bearing upon the subject, from reliable authors. 



H. W. S. CLEVELAND. 

 CHICAGO, Jan., 1873. 



