Art Out-of-Doors 



grounds around it. Now the two are in 

 harmony ; each helps the effect of the other, 

 and the general picture seems all the more 

 home- like because so very individual. 



But even in such cases as these Nature 

 merely prepares the w^ay, the architect takes 

 the first step, and then, most often, the 

 planter must carefully finish their begin- 

 nings. Only in very rough little houses, built 

 in very wild localities, can the natural sur- 

 roundings rightly be left untouched, and 

 natural forces be trusted to add all needful 

 details of completeness to the pretty picture. 

 And when a house stands on a flat, common- 

 place site, then the planter's aid is trebly 

 needful if it is to look as though it really be- 

 longed there — if it is not to have a casual in- 

 consequent air, like a box standing upon a 

 floor. Then, if there is a difl'erence of level 

 between the actual site and the adjacent 

 grounds, some simple arrangement of terraces 

 may well be used. But this alone will not 

 suffice. Terraces or no terraces, flat sites or 

 broken ones, the efl'ect will be best when the 

 planter has most intelligently assisted the 

 architect. 



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