Art Out-of-Doors 



taneous vegetation followed by the ac- 

 cumulation of strange and dissimilar ob- 

 jects." Most people, in truth, go to work 

 in their gardens as they would in their 

 houses if they should bring in a bric-a-brac 

 dealer's stock and arrange it after the meth- 

 od which prevailed in his shop. Such a 

 house would not be fit to live in, and the 

 majority of our small gardens are not fit to 

 look at. 



Nor is true variety evident when, in a 

 place like Newport, we pass a long series of 

 gardens in review. How little their owners 

 really care about them, or even about the 

 plants they contain, is clearly proved not 

 only by their lack of design, but by their 

 perpetual repetition of the same small list 

 of showy plants and flowers. Inside their 

 houses these people want an artistic general 

 scheme, worked out with details which shall 

 not be exactly the same as their neighbors'. 

 Outside they care nothing at all for any 

 scheme, and want, apparently, to show that 

 they are in the fashion by having precisely 

 the same furnishings as the man next door. 



It would be pleasant indeed if a formally 

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