Art Out-of-Doors 



spotted about on lawns and meadows. But 

 there is no doubt that he intended these 

 clumps to be thinned so that they would 

 eventually resolve themselves into lighter, 

 more varied, graceful, and naturalistic 

 groups. When we read of " Brown's 

 clumps" as objects which the planter of 

 to-day should be careful not to imitate, it is 

 not Browm himself who is really put in the 

 pillory. It is not Brown, but his clients ; 

 and like unto them have been almost all 

 the landscape-gardener's clients in our own 

 America. 



It should be remembered that no land- 

 scape-gardener can protect himself against 

 a fate like Brown's by planting only those 

 trees which he would like to see in the full- 

 grown group or wood. In the first place, 

 few owners would be content to see their 

 grounds, for a long period, merely dotted 

 over with small isolated trees ; in the sec- 

 ond place, young trees must often be 

 planted closely for mutual protection against 

 wind and cold ; and in the third place, no 

 one can predict with accuracy how any given 

 tree will grow, and so a margin must be left 

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