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described. Mr. Beale has travelled and seen the best 

 examples of landscape art in different countries. Yet, 

 on his quaint old country place on the Hudson, with its 

 great shadowing trees, small lakes, and open lawns and 

 fine distant vistas, he has seen that the conventional 

 Italian garden would look entirely out of place. Con- 

 sequently what does he do? He simply attaches to the 

 verandah a platform of gravel and a balustrade and 

 steps where the same character of architecture is used. 

 Thus his garden becomes actually a part of the house. 

 The architecture of the house is simple and plain, but 

 excellently suited to the grounds ; and in the same spirit 

 Mr. Beale has kept his flowers on a low key of colour 

 and made all the main part of the garden a broad carpet 

 of greensward with a fountain in the centre. Along 

 the walk that outlines the greensward and borders the 

 walls are massed the flowers. The rough stone walls 

 are completely covered with vines and the backgrotmd 

 of trees and house and a considerable lawn space 

 visible beyond, completes the picture. It is, moreover, 

 a sunken garden because the shape of the ground in 

 the original valley suggested it. If the ground had 

 been on a level with the house, a sunken garden would 

 have been entirely out of place. The point that needs 

 making emphatic is the simple, broad design with its 

 fitness to the house and characteristic quality of the place. 

 How strange and interesting it is to note the kinship 

 and universality of certain ideas of landscape art latent, 

 not only in the present but in the past, as expressed 

 by written documents and examples of various kinds. 



