Art Out-of-Doors 



which were originally American. She takes 

 up vegetable immigrants as hospitably as our 

 civilization takes up human immigrants, and 

 assimilates them as quickly and naturally. 

 Who would suspect the white willow or the 

 barberry in New England, or the pawlonia in 

 the woods of ^laryland, to be an exotic ? Or 

 the field-daisy which fills all our meadows ? 

 And who sees anything inharmonious or 

 strange in the aspect of the ailanthus-trees 

 which, mingUng with native elms, shade the 

 rustic streets of Nantucket ? Nature chooses 

 which exotics she will grow for what we may 

 call scientific reasons, but the artistic effect 

 of her results is invariably good. And m.an 

 should learn from her how to make a similar 

 choice, taking a wider liberty, of course, 

 when he is planting a garden than when he 

 is planting a forest, but never forgetting 

 that, in gardens such as we have now in 

 mind, he should grow together only such 

 plants as will look well together. There are 

 exotic flowers which look as natural, as ap- 

 propriate in a garden, as the marguerite of 

 Europe looks in our fields. But there are 

 others which seem entirely out of place as 



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