Art Out-of-Doors 



picture ; and if they are thus set apart a 

 formal method of arrangement will agree- 

 ably contrast with the informality around it, 

 and will be most convenient also. • 



But I do not want to attempt to lay out 

 gardens at Newport or anywhere else. I 

 only w^ant to show that more kinds of gar- 

 dens may be appropriate and beautiful than 

 our very vague and crude philosophy has 

 yet taught us to dream about. 



A professed landscape-gardener — I cannot 

 say it too often — v\^ill almost invariably be 

 needed when a naturalistic scheme of any 

 extent is desired ] but every architect ought 

 to be able to design a small formal garden, 

 and every gardener ought to be able to de- 

 velop it. Neither the average American 

 architect nor the average American gardener 

 has this power to-day j but that is merely 

 because neither of them has learned his own 

 trade properly. Every architect ought to 

 know something about the requirements of 

 the surroundings of a home, but few of ours 

 even know hov/ to choose its site reasona- 

 bly well. Every gardener ought to know at 

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