THE USE OF GARDENS 



activity has on occasions been misdirected ; it has caused now 

 and again what seems to us to-day to be somewhat unfortunate 

 re-arrangements of gardens which were interesting survivals from 

 an earlier period and valuable as examples of a previous fashion in 

 design — this much can be readily admitted. But even these changes, 

 which we regret because we feel that they have deprived us of 

 something which we should have valued, can be counted as evidences 

 of the interest which has kept the art so much alive. There is 

 little fear that this interest will become less active now ; the men 

 of taste still have power to sway the popular sentiment, and their 

 influence, for which we have every reason to be thankful, is still 

 being exercised for the benefit of the whole community. 



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