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tunity to call attention to the best works in 

 this art also. 



It will be recognized, of course, that the 

 selection of any particular works of art for 

 pre-eminent recognition is a matter of per- 

 sonal opinion. If the opinion of a large 

 number of well-trained men can be se- 

 cured, and if they agree to any extent, 

 such a consensus of opinion has a special 

 value. But we have not gone so far in 

 landscape gardening, and it will apparently 

 be some time before we can. The opinions 

 of specific works which follow are entirely 

 my own and must be recorded as partial 

 and tentative. 



The comparisons made in such opinions, 

 moreover, must not appear to be invidious. 

 Doubtless, some excellent works of land- 

 scape architecture have not been mentioned 

 in the following list. In fact, it will be easy 

 to find other works which are undoubtedly 

 better than some of those here mentioned. 

 The list, in fact, has been made up simply 

 with a view to have it broadly represen- 

 tative of American landscape art. It seems 

 to me eminently important that my 

 students, as they are being introduced to 

 the study of landscape gardening, should 



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