Art Out-of-Doors 
climate of Greece, and a statue sitting plac- 
idly with its lap full of snow does not pro- 
duce a very fortunate effect. 
Finally, the treatment of the ground 
around the base of a monument should be 
given due attention. The equestrian statue 
of Washington in the Public Garden at Bos- 
ton is excellently placed, near the boundary 
of the pleasure-ground at the intersection of 
its main paths. But when I saw it last it 
had a curiously inappropriate look owing to 
the mass of tall, exotic plants which encir- 
cled its base. The profusion of these plants 
obliterated the connection of the pedestal 
with the soil, without supplying any strong 
connecting lines of stem and branch which 
might seem to bind them together; and 
their freely waving leaves were out of har- 
mony with the rigid architectural lines. If 
the pedestal had risen naked from the 
smoothly clipped turf it would have looked 
much better, but best of all if partly draped 
in a closely clinging vine, which would not 
have disguised its form, yet, instead of sepa- 
rating it from the ground, would have con- 
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