Art Out-of-Doors 



of all our landscapes or garden-pictures. 

 Vet we see it everywhere, in every kind of 

 situation. 



It grows easily and very quickly, it is not 

 nice with regard to soils or sites, and it puts 

 forth its leaves very early in the spring. 

 These facts recommend it, and some people 

 find it beautiful, while more believe that it 

 is poetic." It is planted perpetually; 

 but it seldom looks even reasonably well, 

 and it is hard to say where it ought to 

 look best. I confess, indeed, that I don't 

 care about it at all myself. I can see that 

 it has a certain individual charm, and am 

 ready to agree that, rightly placed, this 

 charm might increase the beauty of a land- 

 scape-picture. But in all my wanderings I 

 never once have seen it rightly placed ; I 

 never once have seen it where it did not 

 hurt the effect of its surroundings, or, at 

 least, if it stood apart from other trees, 

 where some tree of a different species would 

 not have looked far better. Our gardens 

 owe much to the Chinese, but they have 

 done a good deal to offset their claims up- 

 on our gratitude by sending us the weep- 

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