The Artist 
gardener can attempt in most of his small 
problems. 
Of course, no amount of looking at good 
results and studying backward the process- 
es through which they were produced will 
train a student in the same way as would a 
course of subordinate effort upon similar 
tasks while they are actually in hand. Such 
a course depends upon the chance to enter 
an office like Mr. Olmsted’s; and if this 
chance presents itself, no desire for travel or 
for study of other sorts should be allowed to 
interfere with it. 
But there ought to be other opportunities 
for at least a theoretical training in creative 
work. We ought to have a school of garden- 
ing art. To-day, if a man wants to study 
this art he must usually be his own master. 
He can study painting, architecture, en- 
gineering, botany, and horticulture in this 
school or in that ; or all of them, perhaps, 
at one university. But the art of design as 
applied to landscape, and as including the 
needful amount of instruction in these prac- 
tical branches, is nowhere taught in Amer- 
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