Art Out-of-Doors 
ica. Nor do I think that it is in France 
or in England, although some more or less 
efficient teaching of it is probably practised 
in Germany. 
It is time, indeed, that we had a good 
school of gardening art in America. If we 
had, I believe that many young men would 
enter it ; and we need the services of very 
many It would not cost much to de- 
velop such a school in connection with a 
university where some of its main prepar- 
atory branches are already taught ; and I 
hope the day is not far off when some pub- 
lic-spirited citizen will awaken to the need 
and meet the cost. 
Meanwhile, here is a motto which I should 
like to see engraved over the door of every 
architectural school in America for the in- 
struction of students, and of every architect's 
office for the warning of clients. Bacon set 
it down nearly three hundred years ago, but 
neither the architect nor his public has 
learned it yet: “ He that builds a fair 
house upon an ill seat committeth himself to 
prisoii” He may find pleasure within his 
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