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in all public and private horticultural schools. The chief school (formerly 

 at Potsdam) is now at Dahlem, near Berlin, where great attention is 

 given to the question. At Laubegast, near Dresden, a great speciality is 

 made of it in the Gavtenbauschule. There are also important schools at 

 Weihenstephan in Bavaria, at Reutlingen in Wiirttemberg, and a private 

 school in the principality of Reuss. 



There are now two national societies of landscape gardeners in 

 Germany, and it is interesting to know that there is some difference of 

 opinion as to whether garden construction is a perquisite of the architect, 

 or should be the privilege of the landscape gardener. We seem to have 

 heard the echo of such a doubt over here. 



One hears incidentally that the designing of race-courses occupies 

 a considerable share of the time of some of the best landscape gardeners 

 in Germany, but it can scarcely be suggested that this diversion offers an 

 extended field for practice in England. 



In France, landscape gardening is taught in no University or public 

 school, although it is exhaustively treated at the Ecole Nationale 

 d'Horticulture in Versailles, which is considered the University of Horti- 

 culture. It is also made a special subject for study at the Ecole d'Horti- 

 culture de la Ville de Paris. There is no society of landscape gardeners 

 in France, beyond that formed by a special section of the National 

 Horticultural Society. 



Landscape gardening is taught in Austria in all Horticultural Training 

 Schools, particularly in the Agricultural School at Eisgrub (near Sinden- 

 burg), Lower Austria, but there is no society or special department 

 for landscape gardening in Austria. 



It is in the United States, however, that one finds a model precedent 

 which may be of great assistance, and it will surprise many to find how 

 seriously the question of education in the art of landscape gardening 

 is considered in that go-ahead country. 



It is, in many respects, an ideal land for the development of gardening 

 of all kintls, owing to the individual wealth and public spirit of the 

 inhabitants, to competition in luxury, to the sylvan resources of the 

 country, and to the new and vast spaces available for treatment. 



The capacity of Americans to concentrate and specialise makes them 

 rivals always to be respected, and there is little fear that impracticable 

 schemes of education will be found at their best Universities. 



Americans use the phrase " Landscape Architect " in place of our term 

 u Landscape Gardener," but in the references which follow the English 

 expression is substituted. 



Definite instruction in landscape gardening is given at Cornell 

 University, Ithaca, New York ; at the University of Illinois, Urbana ; at 

 Columbia University, New York City ; at Massachusetts Institute of 

 Technology, Boston, and at Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass. 



Some tuition in landscape gardening is offered by many of the 

 horticultural and agricultural schools and colleges, but I do not know 

 what weight is to be attached to it. A typical example of this group is to 

 be found in the Massachusetts State Agricultural College at Amherst. 



The course offered at the famous University of Harvard is decidedly 

 the most complete and important obtainable in America. 



