The Artist 
created a large part of the vegetation which 
clothes it, not only turfing and ornamenting 
the formal terraces, but covering their newly- 
made islands and lagoon-shores, in the short 
space of two seasons, with green growing 
things which look as though Nature had 
planted them a long time ago. 
I think that no individual success achieved 
on these Fair-grounds will be so fruitfully 
instructive as Mr. Olmsted’s. Every visitor 
will see that, despite the practical character 
of the enterprise, artists were needed to 
manage it ; he will see that when architec- 
tural works are in question the ground-plan 
is of primary importance ; and also that in 
preparing it the architect requires the help 
of the landscape-architect. The example 
set by the organizers of the Fair in employ- 
ing Mr. Olmsted at the very outset, and the 
enthusiastic recognition of his help expressed 
by all the artists of other kinds who have 
worked at the Fair, ought to bear immediate 
fruit all over the country, among private 
owners of domains wide or narrow, as well 
as among architects and public officials. 
One has only to fancy what a Fair at Chica- 
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