Art Out-of-Doors 
or an enclosure of some sort where plants are 
grown chiefly for the sake of their own in- 
dividual beauties; and so, with us, “home- 
grounds ’ ’ is a better term when we want to 
speak more broadly. 
Speaking, then, of all the grounds near 
the house, this Englishman explains that 
there are situations, as on the hill-sides of 
Italy, where the character of the spot pre- 
scribes a formal, semi -artificial kind of treat- 
ment. But, he continues, “ the lawn is the 
heart of the true English garden, and as es- 
sential as the terrace is to the gardens on the 
steep hills ; 7 7 and, in general, these words 
are true for America as well. In fact, there 
is less need in America than in England to 
protest against the making of formal gardens 
where naturalistic lawns with appropriate 
framings and backgrounds of foliage should 
exist. It would be difficult to discover any 
American homes where “ on level ground the 
terrace-walls cut off the view of the landscape 
from the house, and, on the other hand, the 
house from the landscape . 7 1 Nevertheless, 
there are certain errors in garden-design 
into which we are as apt to fall as the Eng- 
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