ON AMERICAN GARDENING 



sympathetic, so full of inspiration and 

 mastery, that the whole picture will stand 

 forth with a new meaning? If a painted 

 landscape can suggest human passion or 

 divine mercies, shall not the landscape 

 itself, with its real hills, trees, water and 

 enveloping atmosphere, speak with yet 

 directer and more emphatic language of still 

 higher spiritual themes? 



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