ART WHICH MENDS NATURE 



strike at such and such an angle, and must 

 give specified effects of sun and shadow. 

 One whole field of art study (chiaroscuro) 

 is devoted to a consideration of these 

 matters. Yet the landscape gardener has 

 to shift his chiaroscuro with every striking 

 of the clock, and to make it pleasing in 

 twelve different styles every day, for 

 twelve different months in the year, for 

 an indefinite series of years, for the 

 thousand different pictures which first 

 made up his little garden. From painting 

 a cyclorama he has passed to the making 

 of a kaleidoscope. 



Something has been said by way of 

 comparing the landscape gardener with 

 the painter in the treatment of lights and 

 shadows. In the management of atmos- 

 phere the comparison is equally interesting. 

 The painter rightly takes great pains in this 

 matter. It is a comparatively simple task 

 to draw a tree or a house, but to fill the 

 picture with warm sunshine or wet fog is 

 more to the abilities of a master. Now, the 

 landscape gardener must have atmosphere 

 in his pictures, too. To be sure. Nature 

 supplies it, but the artist cannot stupidly 

 accept what Nature sends, take his chances 



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