American Society of Landscape Architects 
At the Spring Exhibition of the Architectural League, in the un- 
finished South Wing of the MetropoKtan Museum, one room was given 
over to the work of the members of the American Society of Landscape 
Architects. Dignified well-taken photographs of the latest work of 
these talented folk were uniformly framed and dehghtfully labeled; 
many of them bore suggestive titles or drew attention to saUent points 
in the planting. Whoever worded these captions is a past master 
in description, and we wish we had him on the Editorial Staff! Here 
are some of them: A photograph of a cleverly planted walk with 
this title, "Value of the Contrast between Free Growth of the Flowers 
and Strong Definition of Stone-Paved Walk." A Locust Garden: 
"Taking Advantage of the Immensely Tall Feathery Locusts as a 
Background to Formal Garden." "After Broad Views There Is 
Rest in the Simple Seclusion of This Woodland Pool. " (Can't you just 
see it?) "Showing the Importance of Sky in Landscape Com- 
position." "Repetition of Horizontal Lines Is the Secret of Repose 
in This Planting. " It was a Hberal education to study these varied 
pictures with their illuminating comments. 
Every phase of Landscape work was represented and it was a 
most notable exposition of the work of our leading men. Many of 
the places and gardens belonged to members of our Clubs: The 
Lockwood brook and wild garden at Riverside; the Lapham garden 
at New Canaan; the Newberry garden at Cleveland being especially 
fine among the newer undertakings. As we were studying these 
pictures a Landscape gardener of note joined us and said: "Is it 
not remarkable how Olmstead's work stands out head and shoulders 
above all the rest of us. He is in a class by himself. " Then we dis- 
cussed whether it is his profound knowledge of native plants — for 
certainly no one uses American shrubs and trees as he does — or 
whether it is his logical sense of balance and fitness of things (which 
he possesses in so marked a degree) that makes his work so individual 
and satisfying. 
Especially fine were the gardens, gateways, vistas, and formal 
plantings of the following gifted people, James Greenleaf; Fletcher 
Steele; Thomas W. Sears; Marian Coffin; Charles Lowrie; Robert 
Schermerhorn, Jr.; Ruth Dean, and Sibley Smith. 
One of the most interesting developments of the past year and a 
half has been the transformation of some scraggly fields and rough, 
open ditches on the estate of Mrs. L. V. Lockwood, Riverside, 
Connecticut, into a woodland scene of intense beauty. City water 
had lately been put into the house, leaving the difficult problem of 
the disposal of the surplus water from the old spring and its windmill. 
It has been utilized in the most entrancing manner to form a spark- 
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