A 1920 work of Ossian Cole Simonds (1855-1931), one of the earliest and most important American landscape architects, the progenitor of the "middle-western movement" of landscape design. He exerted himself to make the country more beautiful by means of the youngest of the arts. The book, presented for both professional and general audiences, appeared to be a carefully conceived and still timely guide of landscape design. Simonds gives a detailed account of the aims of landscape gardening, planting materials and the arrangement, including chapters on farms, public thoroughfares, grounds of railway stations, parks, forests, city squares, golf and school grounds, botanic gardens and cemeteries.