ON AMERICAN GARDENING 



Range, the Arizona desert, and the Father 

 of Waters have received the fulness of 

 scenic development, when they have been 

 made the themes of great and adequate 

 park projects, when they have been set forth 

 for human enjoyment, with all the help 

 that art can give to the great achievements 

 of nature, then surely we shall have so 

 much distinctively American landscape 

 architecture. 



For years we have made ourselves 

 disagreeable boasting about the great un- 

 developed resources of America, meaning 

 coal deposits, iron ore and tillable land: 

 it has seldom occurred to us that our unde- 

 veloped resources of beautiful landscape are 

 even as great, and in their way quite as 

 valuable. If American genius is proud of 

 its native achievements in industry, the field 

 lies open for similar achievements in art. 

 The development of these resources will be 

 the special task of American landscape 

 gardening. 



There is another way of predicting — 

 perhaps less accurately — ^the trend of land- 

 scape gardening for the future. This 

 method consists in comparing landscape 

 gardening with the other arts, which have 



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