AMERICAN MASTERPIECES 



ticularly dear to him. It was his home 

 landscape. It was native. These were the 

 great qualities in all landscape in his belief, 

 and these were the qualities which he 

 wished to realize in his best landscape 

 gardening. Good fortune attended the en- 

 terprise in another very important respect : 

 the work was carried out with reasonable 

 fidelity, with reasonable appropriations of 

 money. There have been some changes 

 from the original design, and some of 

 which, in my opinion, are not improve- 

 ments; but, on the whole, Franklin Park 

 comes as near being a concrete realization 

 of a landscape architect's ideas as can often 

 be found. 



The park is conveniently located for 

 one of its size and purpose; it is adequate 

 in size; it contains a considerable diversity 

 of scenery; it has various sections well 

 suited to the various purposes of such a 

 park; it abounds in pleasing pictorial views 

 of natural scenery; and most of all has a 

 quiet, restful, rural charm which is the 

 very essence of Olmsted's ideal. 



Number Five. I have already named 

 four masterpieces, all of them by Frederick 

 Law Olmsted, Sr. I cannot conclude the 



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