INTRODUCTION 
Only within a very recent period have architects of 
the United States appreciated the fact that the garden 
should be designed in connection with the house. To 
encourage and popularize this fact the Committee of 
Arrangements for the Thirty-fourth Annual Convention „ 
of the American Institute of Architects determined to 
make the subject of Gardens one of the principal topics 
of consideration. It was fortunate to have been able 
to secure papers from those who were such enthusiastic 
and scholarly students of the field which each presented 
in their papers to the Institute. The articles were 
read in Washington, D. C., December 14th, 1900, and 
they produced such a favorable impression that it was 
thought proper by the Board of Directors to have 
them, together with the illustrations, printed so that 
their influence would be of a more permanent value. 
After due consideration by the Board the publication 
of the material, under the supervision of the Institute, 
was given to The Architectural Publishing Company of 
Philadelphia. In the work as issued the authors have 
in some cases enlarged the scope of their papers and 
many illustrations in addition to those presented to 
the Institute have been inserted in the present volume. 
