Art Out-of-Doors 



about doing something than about the thing 

 that is to be done. Having a preference 

 for some particular spot^ he experiments with 

 Nature. He does not dare to remove this 

 detrimental feature or that — he is not bold 

 enough to sacrifice anything. He cannot 

 picture to himself in advance what his result 

 should be. He makes an attempt, and he 

 succeeds or fails. Then he alters — alters, 

 perhaps, what ought to remain, and leaves 

 what ought to be altered. And thus at the 

 last his work always seems a fragmentary 

 thing — pleasing and suggestive, but never 

 satisfying. ' ' 



Certainly it can never be satisfying ; and 

 almost always it will be pleasing only to an 

 uncultivated eye, and suggestive only of a 

 beauty which might have been. 



Two qualities," says Andre, usually 

 distinguish professional from amateur pro- 

 ductions — simplicity and breadth of treat- 

 ment." Remember this, and you will have 

 a steady guide-post, warning you away from 

 the pitfalls into which you are most likely to 

 step. If your garden has not simplicity and 

 breadth of effect, it is certain to be bad as a 



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