Aims and Methods 



ered, not for itself alone, but for the water's 

 reflections also — even a great group of pop- 

 pies high up on a bank at some distance 

 from the pond growing just there in order 

 that a red stain may show on the bosom of 

 the water, near the yellow stain made by 

 great clumps of hardy azaleas. No flower is 

 allowed to stand where its color would not 

 harmonize with adjacent things, and none 

 which is intrinsically ugly in color. And 

 this careful artist takes as much pleasure in 

 finding that the sky-line of his trees is beau- 

 tiful against a midnight heaven, and that 

 their masses group well under the rays of the 

 setting sun, as though his work had been 

 done on canvas. 



I do not know how many of his visitors 

 really appreciate the pictures he has thus 

 created, but, I fancy, very few; and he him- 

 self was surprised to be told that the lover or 

 art would be more likely to appreciate them 

 than the ''lover of Nature." He did not 

 know that he was an artist ; he thought he 

 was only a lover of Nature himself But all 

 the years he has spent in studying his place, 

 and the works of Nature and of men outside 



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