The Artist 
the architect, and may feel as much pride as 
the architect when the one has beautifully 
set and shown what the other has beautifully 
built. Broad as is the mental field which 
the architect may encompass, the landscape- 
gardener’s is still wider, touching the do- 
mains of natural science and of construc- 
tional science on the one hand, and the realm 
of idyllic poetry on the other. Andre 
says that to master this art one ought almost 
to be painter and poet as well as architect 
and gardener. But if one cannot actually be 
all of these, he may feel all their impulses, 
and may weave all their moods and inspira- 
tions into his own peculiar product. 
So truly is this craft an art that there 
seems, indeed, to be no artistic quality 
which it may not express. Color and com- 
position are the landscape-gardener’s re- 
sources as they are the painter’s, mass and 
outline almost as they are the sculptor’s. 
And if he cannot, like the figure-painter 
and the dramatic poet, represent human 
emotions, he does more than the landscape- 
painter who represents some of the things 
which excite these emotions — he, the crea- 
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