26 LANDSCAPE GARDEN SERIES 



vide the proper proportion between the several divisions view, garden, 

 entrance, and service. 



During the early part of the nineteenth century, with the movement 

 westward, another kind of landscape arrangement and architecture 

 sprang into use in America. The conditions about the house became 

 less formal and the arrangement of buildings into a group abandoned. 

 The buildings were placed in rows along the road or street and a fav- 

 orable aspect to the sun provided for. When planting was done exotic 

 or decorative material was used to "dress up" the house lawn and 

 emphasize that part of the grounds. 



While this type of planting was primitive and without tradition, it 

 became almost an American style with its culmination in 1 840 when 

 Andrew Jackson Downing became the leader in the profession of 

 Landscape Architecture in this country. 



The son of a nurseryman, he was trained as a boy to carry on the 

 business that his father worked in, but the nursery business did not 

 appeal to him in the same way that it had to his father, and he began 

 the practice of landscape architecture as a profession through the use 

 of plant material rather than the growing of it as a business. The 

 work of Downing became a style and he established by his practice 

 and writings a tradition that has had a marked effect on country place 

 development in America. 



In country planting, where the landscape gardening is home grown, 

 the sale of native shrubs and trees by the nursery agent is very limited. 

 The pictures of bright colored flowers, unusual plant forms and peculiar 

 foliage makes a "better seller" in a catalogue than such material as 

 may be collected from, the woods and fence row. All of this horti- 

 cultural material, while valuable as accents in the more cultivated types 

 of planting, has a tendency to change the open country home into an 

 enclosed type of landscape where there is a distinct tendency to 

 "create" a piece of horticultural or gardenesque planting. The result 

 of this type of landscape design, which began with a few "different" or 

 exotic plants, soon became a style and produced the "enclosed grounds", 

 and in which no attention was paid to the open country. 



A great factor in bringing about a good feeling and understanding 

 between city and country has been the development of country places 



