Art Out-of-Doors 
the system which did not happen to be their 
own. But occasionally we do find a wise 
and temperate writer who puts the fact of 
the essential excellence of both styles of gar- 
dening into brief, plain words. Mr. Walter 
Howe, for instance, in the charming intro- 
duction to his little book called “ The Gar- 
den in Polite Literature,’ ’ tells us that 
“ there are elements of truth in the ideas of 
both schools which intelligent amateurs and 
professional men should cherish and utilize 
whenever and wherever circumstances will 
permit. ’ ’ And Edouard Andre, who is chief 
among the landscape-architects of France 
to-day, goes still further, in his “ Art des 
jardins,” and says, “Three styles may be 
recognized : the geometrical style, the land- 
scape style, and the composite style. . . . 
The mixed or composite style results from a 
judicious mingling of the other two, under 
favorable conditions ; and, to my mind, it 
is to this style that the future of gardening 
art belongs.” 
In truth, if we use our own minds and 
eyes, we find no reason to think that formal 
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