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Landscape Architecture as a profession and art is one of the most recent, yet one of the most important to be recognized in A merica. For many centuries this art has been developed by the highly cultured nations of the eastern world, but in America the former generations have been so occupied with the building up of the country that little thought, until the last few decades, has been given to this outdoor art. The Egyptians, Babylonians, Persians, Greeks, andR omans, and eventually all the civilized nations of Europe gave great attention to the development of Landscape Architecture and produced results which today speak for themselves. In our travels we admire the stately Italian Villas surrounded with their forests of cypresses and with their arrangement of terraces, gardens, fountains, statues, pergolas, etc. We are also impressed with the suburban English cottages covered with vines and with their broad lawns, walks bordered with old fashioned perennial flowers and shade trees. It is with the recognition of these beauties and with the knowledge that the rapid development of this country was crowding the grounds to a minimum that gradually more and more attention has been given to beautifying our cities and towns and making the surroundings of public buildings and private homes as attractive as skill can make them. Already there are a great many accomplishments of which this country can be justly proud, and there is no reason why America should not lead in this profession, as nature has lavishly bestowed great ranges of mountains and hills covered with virgin forest, great rivers, lakes, and water-falls, all of which form the most beautiful natural landscape effects and which only wait to be developed and made available for public and private use. (Typographical errors above are due to OCR software and don't occur in the book.) About the Publisher Forgotten Books is a publisher of historical writi