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house, however — that is, a house of modern style — 

 would belittle both old and new; and there is really 

 no reason for ever perpetrating anything so unpleas- 

 ant. 



The primary and only reason that there can be for 

 restoring the old type of garden is either a genuinely 

 old house, or a modern house designed and constructed 

 on the old lines. Architects offer us the distinctly New 

 England Colonial, the Dutch Colonial, the Georgian 

 house of the South — as well as the Southern Colonial 

 — and an interesting type associated with that section 

 which I have called the "Divide." And besides these, 

 there is the Mission or plastered, semi-Moorish house 

 of the far South. 



For each of these, there is a garden distinctly its 

 own; and as a matter of fact, no other type of garden 

 can be adjusted to it with any degree of satisfaction. 

 This is the penalty which the revival of a style exacts 

 — a bondage into which it is very easy to deliver one- 

 self unwittingly and innocently sometimes, to repent of 

 most bitterly. Do not enter here unless it will be no 

 burden to submit and see it through. 



Old gardens constantly furnish us with suggestions, 

 of course, and have been doing so since they themselves 

 were new; so there is little to be said in regard to this 

 use of them. That it would be well if the simplicity 

 of them acted as a restraint on the tendency to over- 



