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xii THE FORMAL GARDEN IN ENGLAND
landscape gardener amount to the botanical and
horticultural knowledge he may possess, and to
acquaintance with such natural laws as will enable
him to grow the particular flowers and trees
which he wishes to grow. All Mr. Robinson's
eloquence about nature was put in a nutshell by
Bacon, when he said, " Natura non nisi parendo
vincitur," a remark which expresses the relation
to nature of the landscape gardener and of
everybody else as well. We are still to learn
how and by what title the landscape gardener
is an artist and landscape gardening an art.
As to " nature " in relation to garden design,
on p. 31 of Mr. Robinson's treatise appears as a
heading " Nature, and what we mean by it " ;
which is just what we very much want to know,
but here again we are doomed to disappointment.
There are references to the "tree-fringed lawns
of Switzerland" and "lovely evergreen glades on
the Californian mountains," also to Miss Alice
de Rothschild's garden at Eythorpe. Putting
two and two together, one is led to inter
that it is desirable to reproduce in a garden
" the lovely evergreen glade of the Californian
mountains," and thus we shall get a " natural
garden." It may be natural in the sense of
being grown by natural methods, or of being a
copy of a passage of natural scenery, but the
landscape gardener amount to the botanical and
horticultural knowledge he may possess, and to
acquaintance with such natural laws as will enable
him to grow the particular flowers and trees
which he wishes to grow. All Mr. Robinson's
eloquence about nature was put in a nutshell by
Bacon, when he said, " Natura non nisi parendo
vincitur," a remark which expresses the relation
to nature of the landscape gardener and of
everybody else as well. We are still to learn
how and by what title the landscape gardener
is an artist and landscape gardening an art.
As to " nature " in relation to garden design,
on p. 31 of Mr. Robinson's treatise appears as a
heading " Nature, and what we mean by it " ;
which is just what we very much want to know,
but here again we are doomed to disappointment.
There are references to the "tree-fringed lawns
of Switzerland" and "lovely evergreen glades on
the Californian mountains," also to Miss Alice
de Rothschild's garden at Eythorpe. Putting
two and two together, one is led to inter
that it is desirable to reproduce in a garden
" the lovely evergreen glade of the Californian
mountains," and thus we shall get a " natural
garden." It may be natural in the sense of
being grown by natural methods, or of being a
copy of a passage of natural scenery, but the