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sketch of autumn colors on Lake Ontario. No other land can 

 furnish autumn paintings to compare with ours. Then there are 

 our New England winters (not unknown to poetry), and our Arizona 

 summers, and the springtime at Coronado and at Palm Beach. 



American landscape architecture will some day utilize these 

 boundless resources of natural scenery. Niagara Falls must some 

 day be the center of a public park. The Yellowstone geyser region 

 is already reserved and should some day be developed by the skilled 

 hand of a competent landscape architect. The big trees fall into 

 the same order. And some day the Rocky Mountains, the great 

 plains, the Florida Everglades, the Great Lakes, the Mississippi and 

 the Hudson, Lake Champlain and the Adirondacks must all be 

 opened up to public use as a past generation opened up the coal 

 mines of Pennsylvania, the forests of Wisconsin, and the gold veins 

 of California. Here is the most magnificent opportunity that land- 

 scape architecture ever had, and this is the field in which this 

 greatest of all arts will become finally, magnificently, and character- 

 istically American. 



