Art Out-of-Doors 



The principles of composition upon which 

 he has worked in beautifying his grounds are 

 the same as those upon which a good land- 

 scape-painter works, as regards perspective 

 and composition, color, lights and darks, 

 and light and shadow ] and from the out- 

 set he had just as keen a sense of the gener- 

 al impression he wished to produce, the sen- 

 timent he wished to convey ; and at each 

 step just as true a knowledge of the right ex- 

 pedients for compassing his ends. His trees 

 have been planted, cherished, or cut down 

 as they have helped or hurt the general ef- 

 fect of his landscapes, each special landscape 

 formed by his varied woods and lawns and 

 shrubberies and glimpses of water being 

 kept consistent with itself, harmonious with 

 its neighbors, and yet individual in char- 

 acter. His flowers have been placed, not 

 where they would look well when seen only 

 close at hand, but where they would tell " 

 well in the broad pictures they adorn. A 

 pond has been made just where a pond was 

 needed to unite, yet, in a sense, divide, dif- 

 ferent landscape-passages ; and every foot of 

 ground in its vicinity is perpetually consid- 



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