ON LANDSCAPE GARDENERS 



of large improvement schemes involving 

 wide districts. The Metropolitan Park 

 system in the vicinity of Boston was the 

 first of its kind in this country, and is to 

 be rated as Eliot's masterpiece. 



The greatest, most significant and most 

 important development of landscape archi- 

 tecture in America in our own day is 

 presented in the work of civic improve- 

 ment, as it is now commonly called. 

 Though Eliot is frequently named as the 

 pioneer in this field, the work is being 

 done now on a large scale, in many places, 

 by many landscape architects, and with a 

 technical proficiency and success which 

 would surely have surprised and delighted 

 Eliot. As examples may be mentioned Mr. 

 Warren Manning's work at Harrisburg; 

 Mr. John Nolen's designs for San Diego, 

 Cal., and Roanoke, Va., Mr. Charles Mul- 

 ford Robinson's plans for Honolulu, and 

 the plans of Mr. F. L. Olmsted, Jr., for 

 Detroit; also the reports of Mr. Harlan P. 

 Kelsey on Columbia and Greenville, S. C, 

 and especially the magnificent new plans for 

 Chicago, by Mr. Daniel H. Burnham. 



Literary and dramatic criticism give 

 their best service when applied to the work 



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