THE LANDSCAPE BEAUTIFUL 



foreseen and turned to account by the 

 artist in landscape. 



Still more radical and embarrassing are 

 the changes wrought by the succeeding 

 seasons of the year. The garden is one 

 thing in January, and quite a different 

 thing in May, and still another thing in 

 October. The gardener is not dismissed 

 when he composes one picture from one 

 point of view, nor yet when he has com- 

 posed a thousand in one for a thousand 

 points of view, nor yet when he has pro- 

 jected ten thousand pictures for ten 

 successive years: he must make it twelve 

 times ten thousand, so that every month in 

 the year may have its peculiar beauty. 



It seems like CeU-rying this argument 

 to a ridiculous exaggeration but it is quite 

 true that the landscape gardener must 

 regard also the changes which come from 

 hour to hour during the day. As the sun- 

 shine strikes on one side in the morning, 

 and on the other side in the afternoon, 

 each picture is profoundly modified. The 

 artists who work on canvas, — and who have 

 had such a comparatively easy time of it, — 

 take great pains with the light. It must 

 come from such and such a point, must 



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