Art Out-of-Doors 
about doing something than about the thing 
that is to be done. “Having a preference 
for some particular spot, he experiments with 
Nature. He does not dare to remove this 
detrimental feature or that — he is not bold 
enough to sacrifice anything. He cannot 
picture to himself in advance what his result 
should be. He makes an attempt, and he 
succeeds or fails. Then he alters — alters, 
perhaps, what ought to remain, and leaves 
what ought to be altered. And thus at the 
last his work always seems a fragmentary 
thing — pleasing and suggestive, but never 
satisfying. ’ ’ 
Certainly it can never be satisfying ; and 
almost always it will be pleasing only to an 
uncultivated eye, and suggestive only of a 
beauty which might have been. 
“Two qualities,” says Andre, “usually 
distinguish professional from amateur pro- 
ductions — simplicity and breadth of treat- 
ment.” Remember this, and you will have 
a steady guide-post, warning you away from 
the pitfalls into which you are most likely to 
step. If your garden has not simplicity and 
breadth of effect, it is certain to be bad as a 
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