PREFACE 



I HOPE that no one will open my little 

 book thinking that its title means Every 

 Man His Own Landscape Gardener." A 

 book justifying this name could never be 

 written, and none conceived in its spirit 

 ought ever to be attempted. Practical 

 treatises for artists' and students' use are, 

 of course, another matter ; but it was not 

 for me to try to add to the number of 

 these. All I have wished to do is to say 

 a friendly word to the public on behalf of 

 gardening as an art— not attempting to speak 

 of all its phases and problems, or to speak 

 exhaustively of any among them, but simply 

 to plead the cause of good taste by showing 

 why this art should be practised and judged 

 as are arts of other kinds. 



It is the one which has produced the 

 most remarkable artist yet born in Amer- 

 ica; and this is reason enough why all 



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