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canvas. This canvas is the greensward. Upon 

 this, the artist paints with tree and bush and 

 flower, as the painter does upon his canvas with 

 brush and pigments. The opportunity for artistic 

 composition and design is nowhere so great as 

 in the landscape garden, because no other art has 



125. The same rill "improved." From an actual example. 



such a limitless field for the expression of its 

 emotions. It is not strange, if this be true, that 

 there have been few great landscape gardeners, 

 and that, falling short of art, the landscape gar- 



