PLAN AND PURPOSE OF THIS BOOK 
This book is designed for the instruction of non-professional 
students in landscape gardening, that is for those who do not intend 
to become professional landscape gardeners. At the same time the 
author sincerely hopes that the book will not turn any good men 
away from the profession. 
The book has been prepared with certain definite objects in 
view, as follows: 
1. To teach the principles of universal art, viz. the principles 
of order and design. For the most part these subjects are here intro- 
duced in concrete problems rather than in abstract statements of 
principles. 
2. To give a working understanding of these principles as 
applied in the art of landscape gardening. 
3. To apply the principles of landscape gardening to the do- 
mestic problems of the average citizen. 
4. To apply the principles of landscape gardening to civic 
problems. 
5. In this way to arouse an intelligent and constructive interest 
in civic problems, and to offer a practical working basis of citizen- 
ship. 
6. To bring the student into intelligent contact with the native 
landscape; to give a key to the unsurpassable and omnipresent 
beauty of the native landscape; to indicate the great personal and 
social value of the landscape; to indicate what should be done by 
nations, states and communities for the preservation and use of 
the native landscape. 
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