Is "Landscape Gardening" a Misnomer? 
By Arthur Sm 
THE criticism of articles appearing in the Garden- 
er's Chronicle and discussion upon points of 
practice connected with the management of country 
estates, being in my opinion far too conspicuous by their 
absence, 1 was glad to find in the December issue that my 
article upon Landscape Forestry had called forth a re- 
sponse ; but upon reaching the critic's letter I came to the 
conclusion that he had, when he wrote it, only read the 
heading and not the article itself ; otherwise he could not 
have fallen into the error of stating in effect that I had 
confused landscape forestry with landscape gardening. 
I had always supposed the term forestry to be gen- 
ith, Pennsylvania 
and other means thereby increase the attractiveness of 
the forest landscape as a whole, he is doing something he 
lias no right to attempt and which could be better lett to 
a landscape gardener. This appears to be a very incon- 
sistent attitude for him to take, a; he complains in one 
place about overlapping and yet he suggests the mixing 
of gardening with forestry. 
As already pointed out, the work of a forester is to 
deal with forests. If a forester, in addition to looking 
upon trees from the point of view of their present or 
future value as lumber, so handles the forest under his 
charge as to lift the woods above the region of common 
A MATURE FOREST LOGGED BY THE AMERICAN FORESTRY COMPANY. BY REMOVING THE MATURE AND SUPERFLUOUS 
TREES. ESPECIALLY THOSE THAT PREVENTED THE FULL DEVELOPMENT OF THE BETTER ONES. BEING PART OF A 
PLEASURE FOREST, THE NATURAL BEAUTY WAS CAREFULLY PRESERVED BY RETAINING THE RIGHT KIND 
OF UNDERGROWTH WHICH PRESERVES THE SOIL MOISTURE. BEAUTIFIES THE FOREST FLOOR, AND 
AFFORDS FOOD AND NATURAL SHELTER FOR FOREST LIFE. 
erally used in connection with matters concerning the 
treatment of an ordinary wood-lot as well as those of a 
forest of ten thousand or more acres in extent ; and that 
a man devoting his time to the study and planting of 
trees in forests and in various ways dealing with forestry 
matters was generally known as a forester. But accord- 
ing to my critic, if a forester should select the species of 
trees he plants in a forest with a view of combining them 
in such a way as to create a more beautiful forest ; to so 
care for and treat any individual tree or trees in that 
forest as to cause them to attain the maximum amount of 
beauty they are capable of ; to encourage the growth of 
native shrubs and other flowering plants and by these 
place and improves the landscape, it appears to me that 
he is carrying out landscape forestry, not landscape 
gardening, hence my choice of the title. 
It does not appear necessary ro say anything more as 
regards the question of names and therefore in this con- 
nection my reply could end here. The critic, however, 
opens up other matters, one only of which I propose to 
deal with, namely the reflection which he casts upon the 
practical gardener bv stating that, in attempting to do 
landscape work, the practical gardener has brought land- 
scape gardening under suspicion. 
While I have no desire to introduce personal matters, 
vet. in face of the critic's assertion that he has had eight 
