AMERICAN MASTERPIECES 



of any one man's genius, it is, nevertheless, 

 a masterpiece of American landscape 

 gardening. As such, it should be studied 

 by everyone interested in the art. 



Number Nine. The city of Chicago 

 has become famous in America for its park 

 systems. It v^^as the first large city in this 

 country to reserve and organize a com- 

 prehensive system of urban parks. Its lead 

 in this field is still maintained. There are 

 large numbers of parks and playgrounds 

 in all parts of the city, and these are every- 

 where connected by pleasant drives and 

 broad boulevards with well-designed park- 

 ings. Some of the landscape architecture 

 in the various parks would hardly be ac- 

 cepted as of the masterpiece order, yet 

 the system as a whole is entirely com- 

 mendable. 



During the last few years there has 

 been unusual activity in the construction 

 of new parks and playgrounds, and in the 

 improvement of the old parks, in Chicago. 

 Nowhere else has there been so much 

 progressive construction work. Not all of 

 this work has been good, but much of it 

 has been excellent. 



In that group of parks administered 



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