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re-create the old atmosphere shall not act. See the 

 place as a whole, whatever its size — think of it as a 

 whole, all in the old spirit. There is no such thing 

 as an "old-fashioned perennial garden" or an "old-fash- 

 ioned" any other kind of garden, taken as a unit and by 

 itself. All that there is is the whole, not a part. Old- 

 fashioned gardening is not summed up in the planting 

 of a flower garden wherein the walks and beds con- 

 form to the lines laid down in some old design. That 

 is but a small proportion of the splendid, useful whole 

 which the term embraces — only the final touch, after 

 all the rest is rounded and complete. The old fashion 

 means, first of all, an entire place brought to the high- 

 est point of useful and beautiful production; then and 

 not till then, ornamented in the stately old way, and 

 adorned suitably in such portions as may be spared. 



So it would seem that really to achieve an old- 

 fashioned garden — I am again using the word "gar- 

 den" to cover the entire development of an estate, 

 whether it be great or small — we must perforce not 

 only restore ourselves to the old line of thought, but 

 many of the old, old ideals must be reviewed and re- 

 vivified. Few to-day, for example, would plant cherry 

 trees, as William Penn did, beside the splendid court at 

 Pennsbury; few would grow apples and plums and 

 peaches on their suburban plots, as the burghers of 

 New Amsterdam did on theirs. Yet it is in just the 



