Art Out-of-Doors 
taneous vegetation” followed by “ the ac- 
cumulation of strange and dissimilar ob- 
jects.” Most people, in truth, go to work 
in their gardens as they would in their 
houses if they should bring in a bric-a-brac 
dealer’s stock and arrange it after the meth- 
od which prevailed in his shop. Such a 
house would not be fit to live in, and the 
majority of our small gardens are not fit to 
look at. 
Nor is true variety evident when, in a 
place like Newport, we pass a long series of 
gardens in review. How little their owners 
really care about them, or even about the 
plants they contain, is clearly proved not 
only by their lack of design, but by their 
perpetual repetition of the same small list 
of showy plants and flowers. Inside their 
houses these people want an artistic general 
scheme, worked out with details which shall 
not be exactly the same as their neighbors’. 
Outside they care nothing at all for any 
scheme, and want, apparently, to show that 
they are in the fashion by having precisely 
the same furnishings as the man next door. 
It would be pleasant indeed if a formally 
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