Art Out-of-Doors 
“sports,” never reproducing itself from 
seed, but easy of reproduction by the gar- 
dener, it is now an old friend of the people 
of every European land. In America we 
do not see it so often, although our fathers 
dearly loved to plant it. It has suffered 
much from disease in recent years, and, 
moreover, the canons of such gardening 
taste as we possess say that its formality 
is inappropriate in naturalistic landscape- 
scenes. 
Standing alone in the centre of a natu- 
ralistic landscape, this tall, narrow, and rigid 
tree does indeed look out of place, and al- 
most as sadly out of place if carelessly in- 
troduced among groups of other trees. Its 
qualities are distinctly architectonic; but 
when we recognize this it is not hard to im- 
agine good stations for it. 
In a narrow city street, for instance, 
where much shade is not wanted, it would 
look extremely well, for its character would 
be supported and explained by the archi- 
tectural lines around it. And, on the other 
hand, it is the best of all trees in country 
districts where there are no architectural 
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