THE LANDSCAPE BEAUTIFUL 



list, however, without one more. The 

 Muddy Brook Parkway, extending from the 

 aristocratic Back Bay section of Boston 

 out into Jamaica Pleiin and having its 

 terminus in Olmsted Park, presents a piece 

 of landscape gardening smaller in size and 

 less important than any of the undertakings 

 already mentioned. Nevertheless, it is the 

 opinion of many good critics that this par- 

 ticular territory includes the most success- 

 ful work ever done by the great Olmsted. 

 Here are small but almost perfect natural- 

 istic pictures succeeding upon one another 

 in a veritable panorama. These pictures 

 are usually well composed. In fact, as a 

 piece of pictorial composition, Muddy Brook 

 Park has no superior among American 

 works of landscape architecture done in 

 the natural style. It should be remembered, 

 in weighing the value of this result, that 

 such pictorial composition is precisely 

 what the natural style aims at, and pre- 

 cisely what it so frequently fails to accom- 

 plish. Those who doubt the practicability 

 of landscape composition in the natural 

 style should visit Muddy Brook Park. 



Number Six. Graceland Cemetery, 

 Chicago, classifies artistically with the 



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