Art Out-of-Doors 



go must have been without Mr. Ohiisted's 

 preparatory aid, to understand how, in a 

 corresponding degree, lesser enterprises may 

 profit from similar aid. 



It seems, indeed, as though after a few 

 years our great trouble might be, not a lack 

 of work for the landscape-gardener, but a lack 

 of landscape-gardeners to do all our work. 

 The architectural profession, we are told, 

 is rapidly growing over-crowded ; but its 

 sister art counts hardly half a dozen profes- 

 sors of repute, and a very scanty little band 

 of aspirants. Yet the chances for employ- 

 ment are already good in landscape-garden- 

 ing, and are growing better year by year ; 

 and surely there is no profession whatsoever, 

 unless it be the landscape-painter's, which 

 suggests to the imagination so dehghtful an 

 existence. 



It offers the chance for a life spent largely 

 out-of-doors, in which the love for Nature 

 may be indulged, not as a casual refresh- 

 ment, but as the very basis and inspiration 

 for the day's work. An artist himself, the 

 landscape-gardener works hand in hand with 



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