ON LANDSCAPE GARDENERS 



artist of any sort ever produced in America. 

 In a recent vote taken among leading 

 American landscape architects and students 

 of the craft, Olmsted was awarded the 

 primacy by a majority lacking only one 

 vote of unanimity. There are, indeed, some 

 few persons who show a wish to dispraise 

 his work. These persons say that he took 

 over from another man the design for 

 Central Park, that he enjoyed the credit 

 for a great deal of work done by 

 Calvert Vaux, Ignaz Pilat and others. 

 Every claim of this sort might easily be 

 admitted without shaking his reputation 

 in the least. Many of his later works, if 

 not all of them, are greatly superior to 

 Central Park; and if his reputation over- 

 shadowed those of the men with whom he 

 was associated, it was not because of any 

 personal advantage unfaithfully taken. 



Olmsted was engaged on many works, 

 of which the following are only a few : 



Central Park, New York. 



Prospect Park, Brooklyn. 



University of California, Berkeley. 



Washington Park, Brooklsm. 



South Park, Chicago. 



Morningside Park, New York. 



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