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History of Garden Art
FIG. 121. GARDENS AT FIN-NAHE
graft on an old stem, and the scion has grown m obedience to the impulse communicated
by the old sap.
An entirely different picture opens before us when we now turn our eyes to the
West. The old civilised nations were far more fundamentally demolished by German
hordes than ever before by Asiatic marauders. Yet one advantage has been gained from
this utter destruction—the roots of the new development are more open to investigation,
in so far as they draw their nourishment from ground that had been fertilised by the
valuable legacies of former civilisations. The awakening of the new world was now in
the hands of a religion likewise new, in which lay the seeds, still unseen, of all that culture
which the lands of the West were to unfold. Christian monks were destined to prove the
guardians and promoters of the art of gardening in the West.
History of Garden Art
FIG. 121. GARDENS AT FIN-NAHE
graft on an old stem, and the scion has grown m obedience to the impulse communicated
by the old sap.
An entirely different picture opens before us when we now turn our eyes to the
West. The old civilised nations were far more fundamentally demolished by German
hordes than ever before by Asiatic marauders. Yet one advantage has been gained from
this utter destruction—the roots of the new development are more open to investigation,
in so far as they draw their nourishment from ground that had been fertilised by the
valuable legacies of former civilisations. The awakening of the new world was now in
the hands of a religion likewise new, in which lay the seeds, still unseen, of all that culture
which the lands of the West were to unfold. Christian monks were destined to prove the
guardians and promoters of the art of gardening in the West.