Art Out-of -Doors 



^'sports/' never reproducing itself from 

 seed, but easy of reproduction by the gar- 

 dener, it is now an old friend of the people 

 of every European land. In America we 

 do not see it so often, although our fathers 

 dearly loved to plant it. It has suffered 

 much from disease in recent years, and, 

 moreover, the canons of such gardening 

 taste as we possess say that its formality 

 is inappropriate in naturalistic landscape- 

 scenes. 



Standing alone in the centre of a natu- 

 ralistic landscape, this tall, narrow, and rigid 

 tree does indeed look out of place, and al- 

 most as sadly out of place if carelessly in- 

 troduced among groups of other trees. Its 

 qualities are distinctly architectonic; but 

 when we recognize this it is not hard to im- 

 agine good stations for it. 



In a narrow city street, for instance, 

 where much shade is not wanted, it would 

 look extremely well, for its character would 

 be supported and explained by the archi- 

 tectural lines around it. And, on the other 

 hand, it is the best of all trees in country 

 districts where there are no architectural 



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