Frank Albert Waugh (1869–1943) was one of the first practitioners to conceive of a history of American landscape architecture. He was a renowned teacher, horticulturalist, and author, and while his writings were rooted in naturalistic nineteenth-century landscape gardening, his theories promoted modern applications. The book includes photographs, many taken by Waugh, depicting far-ranging landscapes from Europe and Japan to diverse regions of the United States, along with plant lists and an annotated bibliography.