Art Out-of-Doors 



fitting environment when it is seen from a 

 distance, and the landscape a fitting fore- 

 ground when it is seen from the house. The 

 two questions then are, How to plant, and, 

 What to plant. 



As regards the former, one cannot answer 

 theoretically except by saying that there 

 should, if possible, be a wide extent of lawn 

 or lawns to give repose and unity to the 

 picture, with surrounding plantations, varied 

 in mass and sky-line, to enframe the lawns 

 and connect them with the landscape ; that 

 open outlooks should be left (but not too 

 generously) for the contemplation of the 

 aiost beautiful parts of the background ; that 

 ,ill disagreeable objects should be carefully 

 Uxasked from sight ; and that roads and 

 walks should be as few and inconspicuous as 

 convenience will allow. If a good land- 

 scape-gardener is employed these arrange- 

 ments will be planned and their preliminary 

 portions will be executed without much trou- 

 ble to the owner. But in settling the ques- 

 tion what to plant in completing them, the 

 landscape-gardener, in America as in Eng- 



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