Art Out-of-Doors 



a cultivated eye is as much distressed by 

 seeing a rigid-looking spruce or a solid sugar- 

 maple where a feathery hemlock or a deli- 

 cate honey-locust might better stand, as by 

 seeing a purple beech where harmony calls 

 for a green one, or a lofty hickory where 

 good composition demands a low and 

 spreading dogwood. 



Among the varieties which Nature creates 

 when clothing her trees in her usual livery 

 of green, an artist would distinguish varie- 

 eties of tint and varieties of tone or " value." 

 The green of foliage may be of a bluish, or 

 a yellowish, or a grayish tint, and, keeping 

 this tint, it may vary from a very pale to a 

 very dark tone. Again, the effect of a tree 

 may be compounded of the different colors 

 shown by the different sides of its leaves- 

 may be a mottled and not a simple tone ; 

 and it is always affected by the character of 

 the surface of the leaves, a smooth and shin- 

 ing tissue giving a tone quite unlike that 

 produced by a dull or a woolly tissue, even 

 though upon examination the same shade of 

 coloring matter be discovered. And then, 



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