LANDSCAPE AND WOODLAND PICTURES, 



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Those who have bare, sunny banks, or 

 rocky slopes might : clothe them with a 

 carpet of this beautiful little Periwinkle. 



F. W. BURB1DGE. 



LANDSCAPE AND WOODLAND 

 PICTURES BY THE MASTER 

 PAINTERS. 



Our engraving this month is from a 

 characteristic canvas by Arnold van der 

 Neer,a clever Dutch landscape painter, 



shown in our engraving. The peculiar 

 play of light and shade seen by moon- 

 light, with its effect of half revealing 

 and half concealingdetailsol landscape 

 and woodland, is cleverly rendered in 

 many of his works. He flourished in 

 the middle of the seventeenth century, 

 being born in Amsterdam in 16 19. 

 Good examples of his work are to be 

 found in the National Gallery. 



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MOONLIGHT SCENE BY VAN DER NEER. 



though hardly of the first rank. His 

 work is essentially Dutch, showing at 

 once the peculiar merits and limitations 

 of his time and people — an artistic ren- 

 dering of common scenes with a pains- 

 taking, almost painful, faithfulness to 

 detail, rather than anything visionary 

 or ideal in conception or execution. 

 He was particularly noted for his treat- 

 ment of moonlight scenes such as that 



TREES AND THE WEATHER. 



A close study of the meteorology of a district, 

 and of its woodland history, reveals to the 

 forester all its weak points and exposed belts. 

 Each of these should receive treatment accord- 

 ing to the form and age of the trees dealt with. 

 Cutting should usually be done in a line opposed 

 to that of the prevailing winds, in order to gain 

 protection for the trees left standing and for 

 young plantations, though it is chiefly the old 

 trees which need this care. When dealing with 

 trees in the plain the best way is to cut from 



