Frank Waugh's "Book of Landscape Gardening" has become a classic in its field. Waugh begins each edition of his text with the sentence: “Landscape gardening is eminently a fine art.” He covers general principles of design and discusses three basic styles – the natural, the architectural and the picturesque. The book was praised for achieving “a balance between well-known period examples and solutions” which was achievable by all who attempted them. The photographs included in the book, taken by Waugh, are landscapes – ranging from Europe and Japan to unique regions in the United States. In his text, Waugh also includes several plant lists of the regional foliage. Waugh was an avid writer of magazine articles and books with writings on technical horticulture ("Systematic pomology", 1903), landscape architecture ("Formal Design In Landscape Architecture," 1927), education ("The Agricultural College", 1916), gardening ("Everybody’s Garden," 1937), and society ("Rural Improvement," 1914).