. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. igog. The American Florist, 243 given grudgingly, as though a favor had been presumptuously and unwarrantably asked. This being the attitude toward the giving of information, what is to be expected when these men are asked for an expression of opiuii>ti? He told of Andrew Jackson Dowling, "by all odds the first American land- srape ; who was a nurseryman before he became .a gardener. I'rederick Law Olmsted, the leading designer of the period after the civil war, was spoken of at length and so
. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. igog. The American Florist, 243 given grudgingly, as though a favor had been presumptuously and unwarrantably asked. This being the attitude toward the giving of information, what is to be expected when these men are asked for an expression of opiuii>ti? He told of Andrew Jackson Dowling, "by all odds the first American land- srape ; who was a nurseryman before he became .a gardener. I'rederick Law Olmsted, the leading designer of the period after the civil war, was spoken of at length and some of the public places he beautified were described in words of praise. "Of these,'' said ?he speaker, "the best known are the world's fair at ("hicago (especially the wooded island and lagoon). Mount Royal park, i\[ontreal; Biltmore, N. C, and the rail- way station grounds of the Boston & Albany Railroad. If we add to this list Franklin park, Boston, and the Muddy Brook parkway we have a reasonably representative selection of his best and nio^t characterislic work. Olmsted introduced a new apprecia- tion of natural scenery. He first taught us to admire Nature in her own dress. Downing was, of course, a lover of nat- ural landscape, but this element of his character was not brought strongly for- ward in his landscape gardening. Adap- tation to site and surroundings the keynote of Olmsted's work, and this also amounted to a new discovery in land- scape art. He discovered the native Hora. Gardeners everywhere were plant- ing tTapanese magnolias, purple beeches and Camperdown elms. Olmsted turned boldly, and not without violent opposi- tion, to the commonest roadside shrubs. He adopted the outcast weeds. With the richest indigenous flora of any country in the world, we were still planting the species and varieties of European nur- series. We may remark further that this use of the native flora was the one Olmstedian principle most quickly ac- claimed and a
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