THE LANDSCAPE BEAUTIFUL 



the statue o£ the Republic at the other, told 

 thousands of people for the first time in 

 their lives what were the possibilities of 

 the architectural style of landscape zirt. 



Presently the visitor crossed a beautiful 

 arched bridge at one side. Probably the 

 visitor had never seen a beautiful bridge 

 before, having known only the most vulgar 

 iron truss work or the shabbiest wooden 

 bridges. At the other end of this bridge 

 he found himself in a pleasant wild garden. 

 The path ran through shady trees, it fol- 

 lowed the rushy border of the lagoon, it 

 hid behind masses of shrubbery, it took him 

 by a few steps quite out of sight of the 

 gorgeous White City. He understood with 

 wonder that this Wooded Island, with all 

 its trees and shrubs and its encircling 

 lagoon, had all been lately made; and he 

 felt that this, indeed, was landscape garden- 

 ing. Thus the two great styles of landscape 

 architectvire were most emphatically im- 

 pressed upon the knowledge of the 

 American people at the precise moment 

 when they were most ready to respond. 

 Works of greater artistic merit will often 

 be produced hereafter in America, but 

 works of greater influence, never. 



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