Art Out-of-Doors 



and which stands at the other extreme : it is 

 an example of what the landscape-gardener 

 ought sometimes to leave undone. It has 

 not been made beautiful, and appropriate 

 for human use, by acts of creation but by 

 acts of elimination and preservation. The 

 pictures it presents have not been composed 

 with materials brought from other spots or 

 grown from planted seeds, but have been 

 carved out of a wild landscape by a judi- 

 cious use of the axe alone. 



This place lies on the shores of Buzzard's 

 Bay and covers some 1,500 acres. In this 

 wind-swept and sandy region Nature grows, 

 in very charming arrangements, a consider- 

 able assortment of beautiful plants ; yet her 

 nursery (as regards its larger products) seems 

 very restricted if we compare it with those 

 she has established in fertile inland districts. 

 Of course this means that it is difficult even 

 to cultivate here the majority of the plants 

 upon which, in inland districts, an artist 

 may depend for varied gardening effects ; 

 where plants do not grow with ease they are 

 always likely to look out of place if mian 

 coaxes them to persevere ; and this is doubly 

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