Art Out-of-Doors 



gardening whom we possess are much more 

 numerous now than they were even ten 

 years ago, and also much more varied. The 

 management of very small as well as very 

 large undertakings is more and more often 

 confided to them instead of to chance, or 

 to the untutored taste of a horticulturalist 

 or an engineer. We have learned not to 

 confound an architect with a builder, or 

 with the carpenter who can construct pretty 

 rustic seats and arbors ; and soon, perhaps, 

 we shall be wise enough not to confound 

 a landscape-gardener with a mere grower 

 of plants, or the tasks of the one with those 

 of the other. 



One great enterprise of the moment will, 

 I am sure, have a very potent influence to- 

 ward this end. I mean the World's Fair 

 at Chicago. In its general aspect and 

 judged from the artistic point of view, it 

 is much more successful than any large 

 exhibition of the past ; yet the difficulties 

 w^hich always exist in such vast undertak- 

 ings were in this case increased by the need 

 absolutely to create a suitable site. This 



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