ON LANDSCAPE GARDENERS 



of our best landscape gardeners; and the 

 completeness with which they have been 

 controlled by Downing's ideas would be 

 pitiful had the results been less satisfactory 

 or the leadership less worthy. Other ideas 

 have recently begun to overlie those of 

 Downing, but his work still exercises a 

 tremendous influence. This influence, 

 especially in the recent past, has been so 

 plain, and so easily traced, that we may 

 fairly allow it to be the chief support of 

 Downing's reputation as a landscape artist. 



By this same means, better than any 

 other, can we determine also what were 

 the Downing ideas of landscape gardening. 

 For this purpose we may select for special 

 study Mr. Frank J. Scott, who describes 

 himself as Downing's friend and pupil. 

 In Scott's "Suburban Home Grounds" are 

 found a considerable number of designs 

 of most excellent draftsmanship, and a 

 large number of engravings corresponding 

 perfectly with the plans. From these 

 plans and pictures we may draw certain 

 definite conclusions as to Scott's work, and 

 these conclusions may fairly be carried over 

 to the work of Downing. 



I. He aimed at an informal or "natu- 



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