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current, did their part. But, as we shall see, 

 not merely did those florists belong to a bad 

 school, but they must be said to have 

 contributed by their influence and advice 

 to exaggerate the errors and barbarisms 

 of it. 



In common with the leading members of 

 every profession^ this great firm had much 

 in its hands for good or the contrary, and 

 that it had not the genius to detect the 

 falsity of the principles, in which it had been 

 brought up, we ought not to be astonished 

 or offended, inasmuch as those principles 

 came to them with the weighty sanction of 

 the most distinguished men of the century. 

 In a condemnation of London and Wise 

 we involve a condemnation of Evelyn. 



The passion for seeking in the statuary's 

 yard decorations for the garden had found 

 its way, like so many other equivocal 

 blessings, from a country where the line 

 between the sculptor and the stonemason 

 was more denned, and where the climate 

 made marble work interspersed with foliage 

 more easily endured. 



