Art Out-of-Doors 
gardening whom we possess are much more 
numerous now than they were even ten 
years ago, and also much more varied. The 
management of very small as well as very 
large undertakings is more and more often 
confided to them instead of to chance, or 
to the untutored taste of a horticulturalist 
or an engineer. We have learned not to 
confound an architect with a builder, or 
with the carpenter who can construct pretty 
rustic seats and arbors ; and soon, perhaps, 
we shall be wise enough not to confound 
a landscape-gardener with a mere grower 
of plants, or the tasks of the one with those 
of the other. 
One great enterprise of the moment will, 
I am sure, have a very potent influence to- 
ward this end. I mean the World’s Fair 
at Chicago. In its general aspect and 
judged from the artistic point of view, it 
is much more successful than any large 
exhibition of the past ; yet the difficulties 
which always exist in such vast undertak- 
ings were in this case increased by the need 
absolutely to create a suitable site. This 
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