182 OLD-FASHIONED GARDENING 
elaborate design, from which we suffer, is perhaps one 
point that cannot be too persistently emphasized. A 
student of garden design cannot fail to be struck with 
the anxiety for novelty and the restlessness which per¬ 
vades much of the modern work; and some of the 
great gardens of recent years are oppressive in their 
over-elaboration and intricacy. This is to be expected 
of course, in an age like the present; but it is neverthe¬ 
less lamentable. For a garden should breathe rest and 
refreshment, and furnish a retreat for nervous activity, 
rather than a further sense of agitation. 
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