Ossian Cole Simonds (1855-1931) was one of the country's earliest and most important landscape architects, the progenitor of the "middle-western movement" of landscape design. Landscape-Gardening (1920) presents Simonds's many remarkably prescient ideas: his use of native plants; his desire to protect the land for aesthetic as well as utilitarian reasons; and his championing of urban "greenways." Warning of sprawl long before the word was invented, he proposed thoughtful solutions for twentieth-century cities.
