Aims and Methods 
shrubs set around its foundations will be all 
that is needed to complete an harmonious 
picture of what a northern seaside home 
should be. 
On all this big estate no planting what- 
ever has been done except the planting of 
useful crops in places where they are seen 
only by those who may seek them out ; and 
nowhere upon it does there stand a single 
tree or conspicuous shrub which a gardener 
would call a “ fine specimen.” Yet it is 
one of the most satisfying, one of the most 
artistic, country-places that I can call to 
mind. No artist would wish it otherwise. 
Any lover of art would know that it would 
be ruined by the least attempt at conven- 
tional gardening, the smallest importation 
of florists’ plants. Thousands of trees have 
been cut down to form the many miles of 
road, and the roads are scientifically con- 
structed. But their curves through the 
woods, or along the water’s edge, are as nat- 
ural-seeming as they are graceful ; and no 
hand is ever allowed to touch their borders 
except when the shrubs, which Nature grows 
here very lavishly, trespass in inconvenient 
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