LANDSCAPE-GARDENING 



CHAPTER I 







THE AIMS OF LANDSCAPE-GARDENING 



THE purpose of this book is to help make our 

 country more beautiful. "Our country" refers es- 

 pecially to the United States, although in prepar-*- 

 ing the text the author has also had in mind all 

 those parts of Canada in which climatic conditions, 

 general appearance, and habits of thought are simi- 

 lar to our own, and he further acknowledges a sym- 

 pathy with Thomas Paine's statement, "The world 

 is my country." One's country includes all indi- 

 vidual homes and the thoroughfares that make 

 them accessible, all public grounds such as city 

 squares, school and church yards, parks, ceme- 

 teries, railroad rights of way, golf courses, national 

 monuments, parks and forests, all streams and 

 lakes, all shores and all land upon which one 

 may walk without feeling that he is trespassing. It 

 includes the atmosphere, with its rain and sunshine, 



