REPRODUCING THE GARDEN 253 
latter place, there is no such stiff restraint on a huge 
scale as chills these overdone gardens. 
Simplicity first, as a cornerstone; then convenience; 
then such a degree of easy formality or symmetry or 
order as may perhaps be reduced to the old-fashioned 
term “seemliness”; then a play of dignified individual 
fancy, according to individual taste: these are the com¬ 
ponents of the old-fashioned garden. 
