PREFACE 
I hope that no one will open my little 
book thinking that its title means “ Every 
Man His Own Landscape Gardener.” A 
book justifying this name could never be 
written, and none conceived in its spirit 
ought ever to be attempted. Practical 
treatises for artists’ and students’ use are, 
of course, another matter ; but it was not 
for me to try to add to the number of 
these. All I have wished to do is to say 
a friendly word to the public on behalf of 
gardening as an art-— not attempting to speak 
of all its phases and problems, or to speak 
exhaustively of any among them, but simply 
to plead the cause of good taste by showing 
why this art should be practised and judged 
as are arts of other kinds. 
It is the one which has produced the 
most remarkable artist yet born in Amer- 
ica; and this is reason enough why all 
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