The Artist 



gardener can attempt in most of his small 

 problems. 



Of course, no amount of looking at good 

 results and studying backward the process- 

 es through which they were produced will 

 train a student in the same way as would a 

 course of subordinate effort upon similar 

 tasks while they are actually in hand. Such 

 a course depends upon the chance to enter 

 an office like Mr. Olmsted's ; and if this 

 chance presents itself, no desire for travel or 

 for study of other sorts should be allowed to 

 interfere with it. 



But there ought to be other opportunities 

 for at least a theoretical training in creative 

 work. We ought to have a school of garden- 

 ing art. To-day, if a man wants to study 

 this art he must usually be his own master. 

 He can study painting, architecture, en- 

 gineering, botany, and horticulture in this 

 school or in that ; or all of them, perhaps, 

 at one university. But the art of design as 

 applied to landscape, and as including the 

 needful amount of instruction in these prac- 

 tical branches, is nowhere taught in Amer- 



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