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he expresses his real feelings, prefers to distinctively 

 English, French, or Italian gardening. The mistake 

 should not be made of thinking Mr. Staples is not well 

 informed in the art of making landscape scenery, and 

 that he does things in any haphazard fashion. He is 

 really highly informed in the secrets of his art. An 

 intelligent eye must realize that he knows how to 

 manage the scenery along the shores and banks of the 

 brook, knows how and where to set his trees and shrubs 

 and flowers, where to make his pools, and where to 

 locate a building and give it a proper background. It 

 takes study and a special gift to do such work. Mr. 

 Staples, doubtless, would say that he did not claim to 

 be a landscape gardener or a horticulturist, but never- 

 theless he knows good landscape art when he sees it, 

 and he has seen it, you may depend upon it. There 

 can be no question that his skill has been "aided and 

 disciplined by frequent reference to and companion- 

 ship with finely suggestive artistic precedents and 

 examples." 1 It is interesting to note how entirely 

 sympathetic two artists may be, and how they may 

 work with entirely different motives, and yet the skill 

 of both show equal evidences of frequent "references 

 to and companionship with finely suggestive artistic 

 precedents and examples." This is shown by the 

 illustration where Mr. Beale, a distinguished artist, 

 and an intimate and most appreciative friend of Mr. 

 Staples, has made a formal garden on just as good lines 

 of its kind as those of the little woodside cottage just 



1 Gino C. Speranza. 

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