Evolution of Iborticulture 



says : " Such novelties were pleasing, and 

 man could do no more in this style, when 

 he increased the size of his gardens, than 

 vary the arrangement of the repetition : 

 he might turn the kaleidoscope at will ; 

 but the same materials, the same ideas 

 appeared only in a different direction. 

 Invention was at a stand-still ; confined to 

 a square plot of wall-girted ground, she 

 could do no more. The trees and flowers 

 employed were of the rarest kinds : the 

 basins and temples of the costliest ma- 

 terials : vases and statues of the finest 

 workmanship were scattered through the 

 ground : and then what remained ? Noth- 

 ing but to demolish the walls, and let in 

 the view of the surrounding country, to 

 teach mankind the beauties of which, un- 

 der certain combinations, they required 

 no masters'" 1 



Such masters however had existed, and 



among them Bacon had long before, by 



his writings, and partly by his example, 



taught his countrymen that man was only 



1 G. W. Johnson. 



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