Art Out-of-Doors 



the system which did not happen to be their 

 own. But occasionally we do find a wise 

 and temperate writer Avho puts the fact of 

 the essential excellence of both styles of gar- 

 dening into brief, plain words, ^vlr. Walter 

 Howe, for instance, in the charming intro- 

 duction to his little book called The Gar- 

 den in Polite Literature." tells us that 

 there are elements of truth in the ideas of 

 both schools which intelligent amateurs and 

 professional men should cherish and utilize 

 whenever and wherever circumstances will 

 permit." And Edouard Andre, who is chief 

 among the landscape-architects of France 

 to-day. goes still further, in his •'•Art des 

 jardins/' and says. ••'Three styles may be 

 recognized : the geometrical style, the land- 

 scape style, and the composite style. . . . 

 The mixed or composite style results from a 

 judicious mingling of the other two. under 

 favorable conditions ; and, to my mind, it 

 is to this style that the future of gardening 

 art belongs." 



In truth, if we use our own minds and 

 eyes, we find no reason to think that formal 

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