Art Out-of-Doors 
go must have been without Mr. Olmsted’s 
preparatory aid, to understand how, in a 
corresponding degree, lesser enterprises may 
profit from similar aid. 
It seems, indeed, as though after a few 
years our great trouble might be, not a lack 
of work for the landscape-gardener, but a lack 
of landscape-gardeners to do all our work. 
The architectural profession, we are told, 
is rapidly growing over-crowded ; but its 
% sister art counts hardly half a dozen profes- 
sors of repute, and a very scanty little band 
of aspirants. Yet the chances for employ- 
ment are already good in landscape-garden- 
ing, and are growing better year by year ; 
and surely there is no profession whatsoever, 
unless it be the landscape-painter’s, which 
suggests to the imagination so delightful an 
existence. 
It offers the chance for a life spent largely 
out-of-doors, in which the love for Nature 
may be indulged, not as a casual refresh- 
ment, but as the very basis and inspiration 
for the day’s work. An artist himself, the 
landscape-gardener works hand in hand with 
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