THE AIMS OF LANDSCAPE-GARDENING 17 



this subject is taught in their colleges. The study 

 of landscape, embracing, as it does, all that one sees 

 out-of-doors, is one of the broadest of subjects. 

 It is far more important as a fine art than paint- 

 ing, sculpture, architecture, flower arrangement 

 and gardening, since it includes in a general way 

 all of these, and its principles are those of all the 

 other arts. 



It follows, therefore, that the landscape-gardener 

 works with his imagination. This is true in a 

 greater or less degree of other men, but, for the 

 landscape-gardener it is preeminently so. He 

 must be a dreamer, a designer, an inventor, a cre- 

 ator, a dreamer more than most designers be- 

 cause it may take years for his designs to develop. 

 He not only dreams but he creates, working with 

 land, plants, water, rocks, buildings, roads, and 

 bridges. He puts two and two together, joining 

 the work of the architect or engineer with that of 

 nature. His aim is to produce beautiful outdoor 

 scenery, the scenery that includes all one sees 

 whenever he walks or rides through country or city. 

 He is often called a " landscape architect," but 

 architect implies building, working with lumber, 

 bricks, stone, mortar, glass, metals, in short, ma- 



