Art Out-of-Doors 



is an agriculturalist, and he who grows 

 plants for their individual charms is a horti- 

 culturalist, and he who constructs solid 

 roads is an engineer, the man who uses 

 ground and plants, roads and paths, and wa- 

 ter and accessory buildings, with an eye to 

 organic beauty of effect, is— or ought to be 

 — an artist. 



All the Arts of Design are thus akin in 

 general character and purpose. But they 

 differ from each other in many ways, and in 

 studying the peculiarities of gardening art 

 we find some reasons why its affinity with 

 its sisters is so commonly ignored. 



One difference is that it uses the same 

 materials as Nature herself. In what is 

 called the naturalistic " style of gardening 

 it uses them to produce many effects which, 

 under favoring conditions, Nature might 

 have produced without man's aid. Then, 

 the better the result, the less likely it is to 

 be recognized as an artificial, an artistic, 

 result ; the more perfectly the artist attains 

 his end, the more likely we are to forget 

 that he has been at work. 



I dare say there are many persons who 



