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latter place, there is no such stiff restraint on a huge 

 scale as chills these overdone gardens. 



Simplicity first, as a cornerstone; then convenience; 

 then such a degree of easy formality or symmetry or 

 order as may perhaps be reduced to the old-fashioned 

 term "seemliness" ; then a play of dignified individual 

 fancy, according to individual taste : these are the com- 

 ponents of the old-fashioned garden. 



