ON THE IMPROVEMENT OF THE 

 OPEN COUNTRY 



CIVIC art has won a place with archi- 

 tecture and music. It is a branch 

 of landscape architecture dealing 

 with the making of cities. The civic artist 

 gives his services to build new cities on 

 proper lines or to remodel old cities. His 

 effort is to secure the greatest amount of 

 beauty along with the best sanitary, moral 

 and business conditions. 



It is a great mistake to limit the opera- 

 tion of this art to the cities. Civics, citizen- 

 ship, and civic art belong also to the 

 villages and to the open country. 



Village improvement, to be sure, does 

 carry this art into the villages. Village 

 improvement is a movement which has the 

 same ends in view, and it comes to have 

 a different name only because a different 

 organization is demanded to accomplish 

 results in smaller communities. 



But to-day I want to say a word for 



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