The Artist 



created a large part of the vegetation which 

 clothes it, not only turfing and ornamenting 

 the formal terraces, but covering their newly- 

 made islands and lagoon-shores, in the short 

 space of two seasons, with green growing 

 things which look as though Nature had 

 planted them a long time ago. 



I think that no individual success achieved 

 on these Fair-grounds will be so fruitfully 

 instructive as Mr. Olmsted's. Every visitor 

 will see that, despite the practical character 

 of the enterprise, artists were needed to 

 manage it ; he will see that when architec- 

 tural works are in question the ground -plan 

 is of primary importance ; and also that in 

 preparing it the architect requires the help 

 of the landscape-architect. The example 

 set by the organizers of the Fair in employ- 

 ing ]\Ir. Olmsted at the very outset, and the 

 enthusiastic recognition of his help expressed 

 by all the artists of other kinds who have 

 w^orked at the Fair, ought to bear immediate 

 fruit all over the country, among private 

 owners of domains wide or narrow, as wqW 

 as among architects and public officials. 

 One has only to fancy what a Fair at Chica- 



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