Garden and Forest and “Landscape Art”

Laura Wood Roper notes in her 1973 biography of Frederick Law Olmsted that the 1890s were years of "staggering reverses" for the profession of landscape architecture.Pioneers such as Frederick Law Olmsted and Id.W. S. Cleveland retired from practice, while the untimely deaths of Henry S. Codman and Charles Eliot diminished the next generation.'But it was also during this period that a body of theory and technical expertise was developed and became the basis for training landscape architects.What had been a practice, in other words, matured into a profession.And much of this transition is documented in the pages of Garden and Forest.Garden and Forest, published from 1888 through 1897, benefited from an extraordinary group of editors and contributors who saw it as their best forum for shaping the profession of landscape architecture.