THE LANDSCAPE BEAUTIFUL 



o£ men still living. In pursuance of our 

 determination to apply similar methods to 

 landscape art, we ought now to say some- 

 thing of the work of contemporary land- 

 scape architects. The difficulties of such 

 an undertaking are only too manifest, and 

 have already been enumerated. From 

 recent and somewhat extended correspond- 

 ence with the best judges, however, I beg 

 permission to sketch a few general 

 observations. 



A considerable majority of these 

 correspondents place Mr. Warren H. Man- 

 ning and the Olmsted Brothers at the top 

 of the list of practising landscape archi- 

 tects. 



Mr. Manning, who worked for some 

 time with the elder Olmsted, is mentioned 

 by many as the best representative of 

 that master's methods. He is particularly 

 strong in his knowledge of native flora over 

 a large part of the continent, and in his 

 ability to bring this flora into effective 

 use. His methods are particularly adapted 

 to large rural places, and there is some 

 suggestion that on small city places he is 

 less successful, owing to this use of too 

 broad a style. 



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