Art Out-of-Doors 
artistic is the scene, so eminently appropri- 
ate as the central feature of a large town, so 
restful and dignified in its architectonic sim- 
plicity. 
And there is even more than this to be 
said in behalf of formal gardening. When 
a stately house is surrounded by a large nat- 
uralistic park there is sometimes a look of 
incompleteness, of disharmony, no matter 
how skilfully the planter may have w T orked 
near the house-walls and around their base. 
Certain English writers tell us that a house 
ought never to stand thus in close contact 
with informally arranged grounds — that 
there ought always to be a symmetrical gar- 
den in front of it, or at least some arrange- 
ment of terraces and regular plantations. 
And others, of course, say just the reverse, 
finding their ideal in those English man- 
sions whose walls rise straight and simple 
from encircling lakes of turf. 
Truth lies, once more, between these two 
extremes. Sometimes architectonic design 
is evidently needed in the grounds adjoin- 
ing the house ; but sometimes unity and 
