110 PARKS AND PLEASURE-GROUNDS. 



reasonable to expect a fine landscape painting were we 

 to commission an artist to trace the outlines of tlie 

 picture, and then to leave the colourings the manage- 

 ment of the lights and shades^ and the filling up gene- 

 rally, to a house-painter, who undoubtedly can handle 

 a brush as well as a forester or a day-labourer can meld 

 a spade. 



