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...allusion to the often quoted observation by Francis Bacon—"When ages grow to civility and elegancy, men come to build stately, sooner than to garden finely; as if gardening were the greater perfection"—then Downing's charge as apostle of refinement in landscape gardening is clear. Downing...

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...palaces are but gross handiworks; and a man shall ever see that when ages grow to civility and elegancy men come to build stately sooner than to garden finely, as if gardening were the greater perfection." Whether this is generally true or not, it seems that for some people, especially for some...

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...pleasures . . . and a man shall ever see that when ages grow to civility and elegance, men come to huild stately sooner than to garden finely, as if gardening were the greater perfection."1 * Left implicit is the thought that fine gardening htings us hack, full circle, to Eden....

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...habitat-making in its advanced mode with the creation of gardens: 'when Ages grow to Civility and Elegancie, Men come to Build Stately, sooner than to Garden finely, as if Gardening were the Greater perfection' (Essays, 1625). Bacon's distinction between the two modes, his acknowledgement of their...