Art Out-of-Doors 



ica. Nor do I think that it is in France 

 or in England, although some more or less 

 efficient teaching of it is probably practised 

 in Germany. 



It is time, indeed, that we had a good 

 school of gardening art in America, If we 

 had, I believe that many young men would 

 enter it ; and we need the services of very 

 many. It would not cost much to de- 

 velop such a school in connection with a 

 university where some of its main prepar- 

 atory branches are already taught ; and I 

 hope the day is not far off when some pub- 

 lic-spirited citizen will awaken to the need 

 and meet the cost. 



Meanwhile, here is a motto which I should 

 like to see engraved over the door of every 

 architectural school in America for the in- 

 struction of students, and of every architect's 

 office for the warning of clients. Bacon set 

 it down nearly three hundred years ago, but 

 neither the architect nor his public has 

 learned it yet: ''He that builds a fair 

 house upon an ill seat commifteth himself to 

 prison.'^ He may find pleasure within his 



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