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for the beautiful. And in their tight little fatherland 
the Dutch had long been masters of gardening. 
Yet what they gained in a superior knowledge of 
garden craft was perhaps offset by what they lacked 
in taste; so that, after all, the gardens of their making, 
though different, were no finer than the English gar¬ 
dens to the north and to the south of them. Nor were 
they by any means as lovely as the careless gardens of 
the Andalusians, away beyond. 
