Art Out-of-Doors 
More color than these devices can give 
us we do not need in the garment of our 
foundation-walls. A little more may be 
supplied, if you will, by a few tall hardy 
flowering plants, like hollyhocks and the 
more delicate of the sunflowers, set against 
the open spaces of wall, or in angles where 
the neighboring shrub - forms accord with 
them. But it is less wise to scatter exotics 
about, both because they need annual re- 
planting and because they are unlikely to 
harmonize with their shrubby associates. 
And all pattern-bedding or massing of brill- 
iant flowers should be avoided here with the 
sternest self-restraint. 
They have a terrible fashion just now in 
Europe which I hope will never become a 
fashion in America. Often where a beau- 
tiful mass of shrubs had grown for awhile 
in free development, sweeping the grass 
with its delicate leaves and sprinkled flow- 
ers, the lower branches have been cut away 
and, between the shrubs and the grass, a 
pattern-border has been laid out, or rows 
of gay annuals have been set. Nothing uglier 
could be imagined — nothing more needless, 
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