ART WHICH MENDS NATURE 



the grounds of the railway station at Wel- 

 lesley Farms. Here the whole series of 

 obstacles have been frankly met and 

 triumphantly overcome. The more one 

 looks at any one of these pieces of work, 

 changing from one point of view to another, 

 coming again and again at different sea- 

 sons, at different hours of the day, and in 

 different weathers, the surer one grows that 

 the whole series of pictures is good. Such 

 study will reveal, too, the value of premedi- 

 tation in the arrangement of all the parts 

 of the landscape, — ^will show that the whole 

 thing really came from the hand of an 

 artist, and that it is not a fortuitous con- 

 course of exceptionally agreeable and 

 naturally unrelated elements. 



The camera is the great detective. 

 Apply the camera to the works of the land- 

 scape gardener and you have one of the 

 severest tests. The photographability 

 (save the word) of the gardener's work 

 shows the perfection of its composition. 

 When it shows good masses with pleasing 

 lights and shadows from all points of view, 

 we may fairly allow that the work is an 

 artistic success. 



Wherefore the study of landscape gar- 



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