Aims and Methods 
ered, not for itself alone, but for the water’s 
reflections also — even a great group of pop- 
pies high up on a bank at some distance 
from the pond growing just there in order 
that a red stain may show on the bosom of 
the water, near the yellow stain made by 
great clumps of hardy azaleas. No flower is 
allowed to stand where its color would not 
harmonize with adjacent things, and none 
which is intrinsically ugly in color. And 
this careful artist takes as much pleasure in 
finding that the sky-line of his trees is beau- 
tiful against a midnight heaven, and that 
their masses group well under the rays of the 
setting sun, as though his work had been 
done on canvas. 
I do not know how many of his visitors 
really appreciate the pictures he has thus 
created, but, I fancy, very few; and he him- 
self was surprised to be told that the lover or 
art would be more likely to appreciate them 
than the “ lover of Nature.” He did not 
know that he was an artist ; he thought he 
was only a lover of Nature himself. But all 
the years he has spent in studying his place, 
and the works of Nature and of men outside 
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