10 Xan^scapc Hrcbitecture 



"5th : A cistern or pond as mentioned above, with 

 alive fish kept in it and surrounded with proper 

 plants, that is such as love the watery soil, and 

 would lose their beauty and greenness if planted on 

 dry ground. It is a particular profession to lay out 

 these gardens and keep them so curiously and nicely 

 as they ought to be. Nor doth it require less skill 

 and ingenuity to contrive and fit out the rocks and 

 hills above mentioned." 



Milton a little earlier wrote a description of the 

 Garden of Eden in Paradise Lost, which distinctly 

 breathed the modern spirit of art, and was so graphic 

 that Walter Bagehot asserts that "you could draw a map 

 of the description. " 



Of Eden, where delicious Paradise, 



Now nearer, crowns with her enclosure green, 

 As with a rural mound, the champain head 



Of a steep wilderness, whose hairy sides 

 With thicket overgown, grotesque and wild. 



Access denied; and overhead up grew 

 Impenetrable height of lofty shade, 



Cedar, and Pine, and Fir, and branching palm, 

 A sylvan scene, and, as the ranks ascend 



Shade above shade, a woody theatre 

 Of stateliest view. Yet higher than their tops 



The verdurous wall of Paradise upsprung. 



In this pleasant soil 

 His far more pleasant garden God ordained. 



Flowers worthy of Paradise which not nice Art 



