Art Out-of-Doors 
and which stands at the other extreme : it is 
an example of what the landscape-gardener 
ought sometimes to leave undone. It has 
not been made beautiful, and appropriate 
for human use, by acts of creation but by 
acts of elimination and preservation. The 
pictures it presents have not been composed 
with materials brought from other spots or 
grown from planted seeds, but have been 
carved out of a wild landscape by a judi- 
cious use of the axe alone. 
This place lies on the shores of Buzzard’s 
Bay and covers some 1,500 acres. In this 
wind-swept and sandy region Nature grows, 
in very charming arrangements, a consider- 
able assortment of beautiful plants ; yet her 
nursery (as regards its larger products) seems 
very restricted if we compare it with those 
she has established in fertile inland districts. 
Of course this means that it is difficult even 
to cultivate here the majority of the plants 
upon which, in inland districts, an artist 
may depend for varied gardening effects ; 
where plants do not grow with ease they are 
always likely to look out of place if man 
coaxes them to persevere ; and this is doubly 
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