Preface 



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the author's text to stand intact, reserving the expression of 

 my own views for some more appropriate opportunity. 



The reader will readily understand, therefore, that where 

 the personal pronoun, first person, occurs in the text it always 

 means Edward Kemp. 



The work of Kemp will be better understood and more 

 enjoyed if it is studied in connection with the work of his 

 contemporaries, particularly Repton, Milner, Loudon and 

 Downing; for America, the comparison with Do^/ning is 

 most natural and most instructive. There is, of course, no 

 space in this book for a critical comparison of these various 

 workers, but a slight introduction to such a study will be 

 found in the biographical note on Kemp included herewith. 

 There is every reason to believe that, with the remarkable 

 popularization and no less remarkable liberalization of land- 

 scape art now going on in America, there will be more interest 

 than ever before in the work of those great men who estab- 

 lished the English (and therefore the American) style of land- 

 scape gardening. 



F. A. WAUGH. 



Massachusetts Agricultural College, 

 January, 1911. 



