He started designing parks and gardens of the area.
In many countries and cultures, designing pretty gardens is considered to be an art.
He has also designed gardens for city brownstones and country houses.
The last program, on Sept. 15, will take up designing gardens in small spaces.
Parsons and his contemporaries believed that an artist could design better gardens.
He may also have designed other gardens during the 1720s.
Property with large and/or beautiful gardens designed by their owners.
"I have already designed gardens for friends and family," James says.
Community members that live along the trail also have designed gardens in their yards to add to the beauty of the landscape.
On his return to the United States in 1926, he designed gardens for private country estates.