PAINTING THE LANDSCAPE 



With the exception of the pond, and 

 some of the very heavy chopping and clear- 

 ing, the work of improvement on our place 

 has been done by the Meister's own hands, 

 with rarely any other assistance than that 

 of the "Handy Lad," so often mentioned 

 in these pages (who, by the way, has grown 

 up into a clever young man since he first 

 appeared in them). And, with no other 

 teacher than nature and experiment, the 

 secrets of forestry and landscape architec- 

 ture gradually revealed themselves to him, 

 as those of planting and growing came to 

 me, and after a while he evolved a very 

 simple and practical method of planning 

 and carrying out his improvements. 



Before leaving Felsengarten in the fall, 



he would select the locality he meant to 



improve the following summer, and wander 



over every inch of it until he was familiar 



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