THE LANDSCAPE BEAUTIFUL 



Boston; Prospect Park, Brooklyn; Druid 

 Hill Park, Baltimore; Washington Park, 

 Chicago, or Mount Royal Park, Montreal. 

 And this difference may be fairly charac- 

 terized by calling the method under dis- 

 cussion the decorative use of landscape 

 gardening. 



Landscape architects nowadays are 

 studying whole cities or whole counties at 

 once. Mr. Charles M. Robinson goes to 

 Honolulu and makes plans for the improve- 

 ment in beauty of the whole city and its 

 environs ; Mr, Harlan P- Kelsey does the 

 same thing for Columbia, S. C. ; Mr. Warren 

 Manning goes to Ithaca, N. Y., and plans 

 for the harmonious development of a tract 

 of country fifty miles square, reaching the 

 whole length of Cayuga Lake. When 

 these men make a beautiful boulevard of a 

 useful city street, when they make an in- 

 spiring vista of a necessary canal, when 

 they bring skylines, building fronts and 

 sign-boards into harmonious alignment, 

 then may it reasonably be said that they 

 are applying the principles of decorative 

 art to the ends of their profession. They 

 are decorating cities, just as dressmakers 

 decorate wasted busts, or as the printers, 



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