Art Out-of-Doors 



brightly colored they can hardly look crude 

 or gaudy, for they are not set as spots on a 

 carpet of vivid green. The neutral tones 

 of the gravel and of the encircling walls 

 must subdue the boldest floral notes, if they 

 are rightly grouped, into a general harmony. 



But the closely clipped pattern - bed is 

 not the artist's only resource when a cer- 

 tain measure of formality is required by the 

 general character of a spot. There are 

 other flower-beds which are formal yet not 

 so conspicuously formal, and which are 

 bright yet not so gaudily bright. 



Some of the smaller pleasure-grounds in 

 Paris are symmetrically planned as a succes- 

 sion of rectangular grass-plots divided by 

 gravelled paths. No scattered beds or iso- 

 lated plants break the repose of these formal 

 little lawns, but they are encircled, near their 

 edges, by long narrow beds planted with a 

 great variety of hardy shrubs and flowers. 

 The small spaces which surround the sides 

 of the Louvre, at the end toward the church 

 of Saint-Germain-l'iVuxerrois, are thus dis- 

 posed ; so are many parts of the Luxembourg 

 gardens, and of those attached to suburban 



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