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The Post-bellum Period. 



We have not time today to review the remarkable changes in 

 industrial, social, and artistic matters following the Civil War; 

 but we can easily remember their vastness and can realize their im- 

 portance as bearing on landscape gardening. 



Unquestionably the leading landscape designer of the period was 

 Frederick Law Olmsted, to whose work we may now give our atten- 

 tion. Olmsted was engaged on many works, of which the following 

 are only a few: — ■ 



Central Park, New York 



Prospect Park, Brooklyn 



University of California, Berkeley 



W'ashington Park, Brookhii 



South Park, Chicago 



Morningside Park, New York 



Muddy River Parkway, Boston 



Mount Royal Park, Montreal 



Capitol Grounds, Washington 



Commonwealth Avenue, Boston 



Belle Isle Park, Detroit 



Capitol Grounds, Albany 



Franklin Park, Boston 



Charles River Embankment, Boston 



Parks of Buffalo 



Wood Island Park, Boston 



Marine Park, Boston 



Lynn Woods, Lynn 



W^orld's Fair, Chicago 

 Of these perhaps the best known are the World's Fair at Chicago 

 (especially the Wooded Island and Lagoon), Mount Royal Park, 

 Montreal, Biltmore, N. C, and the railway station grounds of the 

 Boston & Albany railroad. If we add to this list Franklin Park, 

 Boston, and the Muddy Brook Parkway we have a reasonably 

 representative selection of this best and most characteristic work. 

 However, in any consideration of Olmsted's work careful atten- 

 tion should be given to his written reports. Amongst these should 

 be specially mentioned his report on Franklin Park and his "Con- 



