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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- 
