THE LANDSCAPE BEAUTIFUL 



plants nor gardeners. With just pride we 

 may label the whole thing "Made in 

 America." 



In another chapter some attempt has 

 been made to determine what are the char- 

 acteristic features of the indigenous 

 American landscape. We found that it is 

 built on a very large scale, that it contains 

 a great variety of motifs, and that it pos- 

 sesses a large number of extraordinary and 

 spectacular features. All of these things 

 are more or less, — and at the bottom more 

 rather than less, — related to the present and 

 future status of landscape art in America, 

 especially to the large and the characteristic 

 expressions of it. Niagara Falls must 

 eventually be the center of a national park; 

 and the Big Trees are already reserved for 

 the purposes of scenery. Pike's Peak, Mt. 

 Washington and Mt. Rainier will some day 

 work into the compositions of American 

 landscape architects; and it is not beyond 

 the reach of a reasonable faith or a good 

 imagination to think that the Great Prairies 

 and the Everglades may some time and 

 somewhere enjoy the mastery of the artist's 

 touch. Then when Niagara Falls and the 

 Great Lakes, Pike's Peak, the Presidential 



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