Art Out-of-Doors 



More color than these devices can give 

 us we do not need in the garment of our 

 foundation-walls. A httle more may be 

 supplied, if you will, by a few tall hardy 

 flowering plants, like hollyhocks and the 

 more delicate of the sunflowers, set against 

 the open spaces of wall, or in angles where 

 the neighboring shrub - forms accord with 

 them. But it is less wise to scatter exotics 

 about, both because they need annual re- 

 planting and because they are unlikely to 

 harmonize with their shrubby associates. 

 And all pattern-bedding or massing of brill- 

 iant flowers should be avoided here with the 

 sternest self-restraint. 



They have a terrible fashion just now in 

 Europe which I hope will never become a 

 fashion in America. Often where a beau- 

 tiful mass of shrubs had grown for awhile 

 in free development, sweeping the grass 

 with its delicate leaves and sprinkled flow- 

 ers, the lower branches have been cut away 

 and, between the shrubs and the grass, a 

 pattern-border has been laid out, or rows 

 of gay annuals have been set. Nothing uglier 

 could be imagined — nothing more needless, 



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