Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 July 1893 — The Need of Trained Foresters. [ARTICLE]

The Need of Trained Foresters.

Probably more young men do not enter this profession because we have no regular schools of landscape design, and it is consequently hard to determine how one may secure the best training. Therefore, in pointing out the probability that, for once, our demand for good artistic work may exceed the available supply, we hope to attract the serious attention not only of young men about to engage in their life’s work, but also of the directors of our educational institutions, and of liberal citizens anxious to work for the public good. The establishment of a department of gardening art in connection with one of our universities or great technical schools would be both a novel and an extremely useful way of investing money for the benefit of the American people. It might best be established, perhaps, in Boston or Cambridge, owing to the neighborhood of the Arnold Arboretum, and to the fact that a more intelligent popular interest in such matters can be noted here than elsewhere In America—doubtless because of the influence of Mr. Olmstead and Professor Sargent, and of the late H. H. Richardson, who was the first among our architects practicallx to recognize the inestimable advantage of a brotherly apcord between his profession and that of the landscape architect. But in any place where facilities for acquiring at least the rudiments of aichitectural, engineering and botaaical knowledge already exist, a school of landscape-design would be of very great public benefit —Century.