Art Out-of-Doors 
quez, but help Nature, at the same time, to 
paint well with her brush, more delicate 
than a Malbone’s. 
Nevertheless, I cannot say too often that a 
study of the art of painting will help him. 
Read Sir Uvedale Price “ On the Pictu- 
resque / 7 if you do not believe me; or, to 
gain instruction from the other side of the 
world, hear what a Japanese friend of mine 
once said. All Japanese gardeners, he de- 
clared, are artists by training and profes- 
sion, yet they attempt to manage only small 
problems by themselves. “ When a large 
problem is in question,” he explained, 
“ anything like one of your public parks, 
the general scheme is always supplied by a 
painter .’ 7 
If the intending artist travels abroad he 
will find some good gardening work and 
a great deal that is bad. Much that once 
was good has perished or been seriously de- 
faced. This century has seen the art of 
landscape-gardening fall to a very low ebb in 
both France and England. Recently it has 
somewhat improved again. But even when 
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