"Artists in verse, painting, sculpture, landscape architecture, have expressed the belief that 

 the Giver of all good things esteemed the life of man in a garden the happiest that could be 

 given. The creation of the Garden of Eden, the Elysian Fields, the Vale of Cashmere, and 

 the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, bear idealistic or practical testimony to the human desire 

 for vision of verdure and foliage. It is the popular notion that the garden builders of antiquity 

 ministered chiefly to the delight of poets, students, philosophers, statesmen and brain- 

 weary professors. The park or garden, in its modern aspect and under the sway of 

 progressive humanity, has come to be regarded as a place where the weary, 

 whether weary of headwork or handwork, may be refreshed by 

 breathing pure air, gladdened by the sight of flowers and trees, 

 and solaced by the sound of running waters." 



