Art Out-of-Doors 
is an agriculturalist, and he who grows 
plants for their individual charms is a horti- 
culturalist, and he who constructs solid 
roads is an engineer, the man who uses 
ground and plants, roads and paths, and wa- 
ter and accessory buildings, with an eye to 
organic beauty of effect, is — or ought to be 
— an artist. 
All the Arts of Design are thus akin in 
general character and purpose. But they 
differ from each other in many ways, and in 
studying the peculiarities of gardening art 
we find some reasons why its affinity with 
its sisters is so commonly ignored. 
One difference is that it uses the same 
materials as Nature herself. In what is 
called the “ naturalistic ” style of gardening 
it uses them to produce many effects which, 
under favoring conditions, Nature might 
have produced without man’s aid. Then, 
the better the result, the less likely it is to 
be recognized as an artificial, an artistic, 
result ; the more perfectly the artist attains 
his end, the more likely we are to forget 
that he has been at work. 
I dare say there are many persons who 
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