Art Out-of-Doors 
grounds around it. Now the two are in 
harmony ; each helps the effect of the other, 
and the general picture seems all the more 
home-like because so very individual. 
But even in such cases as these Nature 
merely prepares the way, the architect takes 
the first step, and then, most often, the 
planter must carefully finish their begin- 
nings. Only in very rough little houses, built 
in very wild localities, can the natural sur- 
roundings rightly be left untouched, and 
natural forces be trusted to add all needful 
details of completeness to the pretty picture. 
And when a house stands on a flat, common- 
place site, then the planter's aid is trebly 
needful if it is to look as though it really be- 
longed there — if it is not to have a casual in- 
consequent air, like a box standing upon a 
floor. Then, if there is a difference of level 
between the actual site and the adjacent 
grounds, some simple arrangement of terraces 
may well be used. But this alone will not 
suffice. Terraces or no terraces, flat sites or 
broken ones, the effect will be best when the 
planter has most intelligently assisted the 
architect. 
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