THE LANDSCAPE BEAUTIFUL 



Here the Pilgrims found a continent with 

 a store o£ noble and magnificent trees in- 

 comparable in all the world. Here were 

 new grasses in the meadows, thousands of 

 new shrubs, flowering plants and fruits on 

 plains and hills and mountain sides. 

 Hundreds on hundreds of these have been 

 taken to Europe and naturalized there into 

 their park and garden schemes, showing 

 their attractiveness and adaptability for 

 gardening. In our own country we have 

 been inexplicably slow to recognize the 

 unmeasurable value of this native wealth 

 of trees and fruits and flowers. Only within 

 the last twenty-five years, in fact, has that 

 recognition gained practical headway. 

 When we think of it now it seems very 

 strange that American gardeners have not 

 always turned their energies to the domes- 

 tic plants, rather than to the acclimatization 

 of exotics. But the fact remains, they 

 have not. 



Landscape gardening in America began 

 to be American with the advent of Andrew 

 Jackson Downing. Downing was an artist, 

 — a real and a great artist, — a genius; and, 

 being a genius, he conceived large things. 

 He gave the country some new ideas ; and 



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