Art Out-of-Doors 



artistic is the scene, so eminently appropri- 

 ate as the central feature of a large town, so 

 restful and dignified in its architectonic sim- 

 plicity. 



And there is even more than this to be 

 said in behalf of formal gardening. When 

 a stately house is surrounded by a large nat- 

 uralistic park there is sometimes a look of 

 incompleteness, of disharmony, no matter 

 how skilfully the planter may have worked 

 near the house- walls and around their base. 

 Certain English vrriters tell us that a house 

 ought never to stand thus in close contact 

 with informally arranged grounds — that 

 there ought always to be a symmetrical gar- 

 den in fi'ont of it, or at least some arrange- 

 ment of terraces and regular plantations. 

 xAnd others, of course, say just the reverse, 

 finding their ideal in those English man- 

 sions whose walls rise straight and simple 

 from encircling lakes of turf. 



Truth lies, once more, between these two 

 extremes. Sometimes architectonic design 

 is evidently needed in the grounds adjoin- 

 ing the house ; but sometimes unity and 



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