Art Out-of-Doors 
In naturalistic work such as this, I say, we 
may carelessly admire the result while for- 
getting that an artist wrought it. But, on 
the other hand, when an artist has essayed 
the formal, “ architectural ” style of garden- 
ing, and has disposed Nature’s materials in 
frankly non-natural ways, his activity will 
be recognized, but, in our country at least, 
few will stop to consider whether it has been 
artistic or not. A more or less intelligent 
love for natural beauty is very common with 
us while good judgment in art is very rare. 
Therefore — and especially as we are unac- 
customed to thinking of art out-of-doors at 
all — we do not understand that in certain 
situations a formal design may be the best. 
Seeing that it is not Nature’s work, or like 
Nature’s work, we condemn it as a wilful 
misuse of good natural material. We recog- 
nize man’s product, but we do not appreci- 
ate any beauty that it may possess. 
Again, gardening - art differs from all 
others in the unstable character of its re- 
sults. When surfaces are modelled and 
plants arranged, Nature and the artist must 
still work a long time together before the 
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