Art Out-of-Doors 
himself, it means, in a great majority of 
cases, a mere love for being out-of-doors, 
for planting things, and for watching them 
develop. Or, at the most, it is apt to mean 
no more than a taste for Nature’s individual 
products — a special love for trees, an inter- 
est in shrubs, a passion for flowers. The 
cases are very rare in which it means a taste 
at all analogous to what we understand by a 
taste for art ; that is, an appreciation of or- 
ganized beauty, a love for the charm of con- 
trasting yet harmonizing lines and masses, 
colors, lights and shadows ; a delight in in- 
telligent design, in details subordinated to a 
coherent general effect. Yet it is only such 
a taste as this which means a real feeling for 
Nature’s beauty, and which can make the 
surroundings of our homes really beautiful. 
We have had some admirable landscape- 
gardeners in America ; and one of them, Mr. 
Olmsted, is the greatest living master of his 
craft, if not the very greatest who has lived 
since gardening art has dealt with landscape- 
effects at all. Naturally these artists are 
more often asked to manage large problems 
than small ones. But as yet they are not 
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