Art Out-of-Doors 
picture ; and if they are thus set apart a 
formal method of arrangement will agree- 
ably contrast with the informality around it, 
and will be most convenient also. 
But I do not want to attempt to lay out 
gardens at Newport or anywhere else. I 
only want to show that more kinds of gar- 
dens may be appropriate and beautiful than 
our very vague and crude philosophy has 
yet taught us to dream about. 
A professed landscape-gardener— I cannot 
say it too often — will almost invariably be 
needed when a naturalistic scheme of any 
extent is desired ; but every architect ought 
to be able to design a small formal garden, 
and every gardener ought to be able to de- 
velop it. Neither the average American 
architect nor the average American gardener 
has this power to-day ; but that is merely 
because neither of them has learned his own 
trade properly. Every architect ought to 
know something about the requirements of 
the surroundings of a home, but few of ours 
even know how to choose its site reasona- 
bly well. Every gardener ought to know at 
