Robert Morris Copeland (1830-1874) was one of a small number of American
landscape practitioners whose written and built work helped establish
the foundations for city planning and integrated park systems. As did
his colleagues Frederick Law Olmsted and Horace Cleveland, Copeland
merged many of the principles of scientific farming with landscape
design. Copeland organized Country Life (1859) into an agricultural
year, providing practical and aesthetic advice on a month-by-month basis
according to region.