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THE GREENING PICTORIAL SYSTEM OF LANDSCAPE GARDENING 



POSTGRADUATE COURSE 



IN 



LANDSCAPE GARDENING 



0 



MANY of the colleges thi-oughout the country have 

 added to their curriculum a course in landscape 

 gardening and they are doing good work with the facili- 

 ties at their command, probably as good relatively as the 

 medical and law schools do for their students. But the 

 point is this, that whereas the matriculant of a law or 

 medical school is usually willing to "make haste slowly " 

 and practice under the direction of an experienced prac- 

 titioner for a year or two, before offering advice on his 

 own account, the graduate of a landscape school seldom 

 undergoes the same disciplinary training with a competent 

 superintendent of landscape construction work. On the 

 contrary he hits the high places right away. He installs 

 himself in the big numbers of the big office buildings in 

 the big cities ; and to be consistent he charges a big price 

 for his plans. All this is radically wrong. " Books alone 

 can never teach the use of books." But trees alone can 

 teach tlie nature of trees. 



" Know ye the rapturous tenderness of trees, 

 Their kindliness, their beatitudes? 

 . . . List to the speech 



Leaf holds with leaf and bough with swa3nng bough " 



THE GREENING NURSERY CO. 



My own son is receiving instruction at Cornell and 

 taking the full course in landscape gardening under the 

 most able educators in the country ; but after the completion of 

 his studies there I shall expect him to take a postgraduate course 

 with me at the nursery and in my office, and thus acquire that 

 intimate knowledge of trees and plants which is indispensable for 

 successful gardening. 



And I take this opportunity to invite all these young sky- 

 scraper gardeners to come down from their high offices and work 

 with me in the broad open air of the fields, and under the tutelage 

 of nature acquire that experience which comes only by doing. 



And the invitation is extended to all young and middle-aged 

 men and women, whether college trained or not, who love the 

 communion of nature and who appreciate the dignity of a life- 

 work devoted to making this world a little l)etter than we found 

 it, to join the Greening Landscape Association and represent the 

 Greening Pictorial System of Landscape Gardening in their home 

 towns. There is room in every comnniniU' for a good worker, 



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CHAUTAUQUA OF LANDSCAPE ART AND HORTICULTURAL SCIENCE 

 AT GREENING'S BIG NURSERIES, MONROE, MICH. 



Hundreds of people attend the lectures on gardening given at Greening Park. 

 Among them are park superintendents, instructors and students from agricultural 

 colleges, architects and young men and women who study landscape gardening as a 

 profession. Our mammoth nurseries are worth making a long journey to see. 



and what is also important to many, you can earn while you learn. 

 There are many men and women throughout the country in whom 

 the art instinct lies latent, and who need only the spur of enthu- 

 siasm to become most excellent gardeners. AA^e learn to do by 

 doing. Write for particulars. 



Our plan of work is in line with the present trend of educa- 

 tional movement, which is distinctly toward manual training: so 

 that while the head is being filled Avith facts the hand acquires 

 dexterity in putting them to practical use. Besides, we do not 

 really know a thing until we tell others about it, and the reflex 

 action comes in the form of an approving smile. Learn and tell 

 others. Then you will know. Knowledge, like happiness, was 

 born a twin. How did Byron sa)- it? Oh, yes — 



"All who happiness would win 

 Must share it: 

 Happiness was born a twin." 



