Art Out-of-Doors 



quez, but help Nature, at the same time, to 

 paint well with her brush, more delicate 

 than a Malbone's. 



Nevertheless, I cannot say too often that a 

 study of the art of painting will help him. 

 Read Sir Uvedale Price " On the Pictu- 

 resque," if you do not believe me; or, to 

 gain instruction from the other side of the 

 world, hear what a Japanese friend of mine 

 once said. All Japanese gardeners, he de- 

 clared, are artists by training and profes- 

 sion, yet they attempt to manage only small 

 problems by themselves. ^' When a large 

 problem is in question," he explained, 

 ^' anything like one of your public parks, 

 the general scheme is always supplied by a 

 painter." 



If the intending artist travels abroad he 

 will find some good gardening work and 

 a great deal that is bad. Much that once 

 was good has perished or been seriously de- 

 faced. This century has seen the art of 

 landscape-gardening fall to a very low ebb in 

 both France and England. Recently it has 

 somewhat improved again. But even vv^hen 



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