Art Out-of-Doors 
The principles of composition upon which 
he has worked in beautifying his grounds are 
the same as those upon which a good land- 
scape-painter works, as regards perspective 
and composition, color, lights and darks, 
and light and shadow; and from the out- 
set he had just as keen a sense of the gener- 
al impression he wished to produce, the sen- 
timent he wished to convey; and at each 
step just as true a knowledge of the right ex- 
pedients for compassing his ends. His trees 
have been planted, cherished, or cut down 
as they have helped or hurt the general ef- 
fect of his landscapes, each special landscape 
formed by his varied woods and lawns and 
shrubberies and glimpses of water being 
kept consistent with itself, harmonious with 
its neighbors, and yet individual in char- 
acter. His flowers have been placed, not 
where they would look well when seen only 
close at hand, but where they would “ tell ” 
well in the broad pictures they adorn. A 
pond has been made just where a pond was 
needed to unite, yet, in a sense, divide, dif- 
ferent landscape -passages ; and every foot of 
ground in its vicinity is perpetually consid- 
