Art Out-of-Doors 
spotted about on lawns and meadows. But 
there is no doubt that he intended these 
clumps to be thinned so that they would 
eventually resolve themselves into lighter, 
more varied, graceful, and naturalistic 
groups. When we read of “ Brown’s 
clumps” as objects which the planter of 
to-day should be careful not to imitate, it is 
not Brown himself who is really put in the 
pillory. It is not Brown, but his clients ; 
and like unto them have been almost all 
the landscape-gardener’s clients in our own 
America. 
It should be remembered that no land- 
scape-gardener can protect himself against 
a fate like Brown’s by planting only those 
trees which he would like to see in the full- 
grown group or wood. In the first place, 
few owners would be content to see their 
grounds, for a long period, merely dotted 
over with small isolated trees ; in the sec- 
ond place, young trees must often be 
planted closely for mutual protection against 
wind and cold ; and in the third place, no 
one can predict with accuracy how any given 
tree will grow, and so a margin must be left 
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