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are fit^ and therefore they are rightly artis- 

 tic in effect. The lawns themselves are no\. 

 smooth and velvety like those of a Nev/port 

 villa ; but they are evidently lav/ns and not 

 meadows, and their comparative roughness 

 is, again, entirely pleasing because entirely 

 appropriate. 



And flowers? Somewhere, out of sight 

 of the house and the main drives, near the 

 kitchen-gardens, there is a garden for flo- 

 rists' flowers. And elsewhere, too, there are 

 flowers in plenty — on the slender shrubs 

 w^hich grow beneath the trees, on the thick- 

 ets of vines and bushes which border the 

 open stretches of road, all through the 

 grasses of the meadovvs, and all among the 

 rocks which form the transition from lawns 

 and copses to narrow beaches ; but these 

 are all vv^ild flowers. Nature plants them, 

 and Nature is allowed to grow them as she 

 will ; they may not be roughly handled by 

 man, and neither may their harmonious 

 beauty be disturbed by any of mean's addi- 

 tions. 



Here, too, where art has done nothing 

 but disengage, clarify, and preserve, we And 



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