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or ten years' experience in landscape gardening, it may 
be permissible for me to say that my first landscape work 
was carried out over twenty years ago. Since then my 
work has been almost entirely connected with new 
estates. Sometimes I have carried out the plans of 
others ; in some of the instances where my own plans 
were accepted it was only after the estate owner had 
compared them with those submitted by professional 
landscape gardeners. As a side issue 1 am frequently 
asked to make plans which are accepted and paid for. 
Side by side with landscape work a considerable portion 
of my time has been given to forestry and during the 
thirteen years I have been in this country I have planted 
upwards of three-quarters of a million young trees. I 
know tnat these facts are of little interest to any one ; 
1'iut every practical gardener does know something about 
the material which is used for creating artistic effects in 
gardens. He knows something of the characters of 
plants ; their soil requirements ; positions as regards sun 
or shade, wet or dry, in which they do best ; the distance 
at which they should be spaced to allow them to reach 
their maximum perfection of form and beauty and so 
on. 
It is quite the exception, however, to find a man call- 
ing himself a professional landscape gardener having 
this knowledge, which one must have in the most thor- 
ough sense before he can successfully design or carry out 
landscape work. 
It is not the forester and practical gardener "attempt- 
ing to do professional landscape gardening that has had 
A MIXED STAND OF HARDWOODS AND EVERGREENS THINNED T J FAVOR YOUNG WHITE PINE UNDERGROWTH, FOR COM- 
MERCIAL REASONS, RY THE AMERICAN FORESTRY COMPANY. AS THE PROPERTY WAS PART OF A CAMP. IT WAS 
DESIRAPI.E TO CONSIDER THE AESTHETIC SIDE ALSO. SUCH PICTURESQUE HARDWOOD ELEMENTS AS THE 
PAPER BIRCHES IN THE RIGHT FOREGROUND WERE THEREFORE CAREFULLY PRESERVED AND GIVEN 
HEALTHY GROWING CONDITIONS. THE FOREST SO TREATED IS A DELIGHTFUL RETREAT, 
AND ITS TREATMENT PROFITAPLE AS WELL. 
they are mentioned only for the purpose of giving my 
critic some information by way of supporting the con- 
tention that it is possible I may know something of what 
I am writing about. 
As regards the practical gardener, I should be the last 
to assert that every individual claiming to belong to that 
craft is capable of producing an artistic garden landscape 
any more than every individual claiming to be a land- 
scane yardener has anv capabilities in that direction, al- 
though all members of the latter class claim infallibility, 
while as regards the former such claim is not asserted. 
a tendency to place the latter work under suspicion," but 
if landscape gardening has been placed under suspicion it 
has been brought abort In- the fact that of recent years 
a large number of men have adopted this profession 
without possessing anv of the fundamental knowledge 
requisite to carry it on. and among this latter c'ass those 
who have made the worst botches are men whose only 
qualification (if it deserves the name) has been that they 
have taken a landscape course at some college. 
Scores of instances have come into my limited experi- 
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