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History of Garden Art
FIG. 593. WORLITZ-GROUND-PLAN
England there was not only a great literature of gardening, but a goodly number of
examples. He had steeped himself in the new ideas, and felt that he was the representative
of good taste, and its champion in the fatherland. So, as Goethe says, he lighted with his
own fire the emulation and enthusiasm of the rest. In his five volumes he embraces all
the essentials of the garden: theoretical, aesthetic, and historical. He tries to inspire the
artist, the amateur, the gardener, by giving many examples, by his treatment of individual
cases, by criticism and instruction. His most valuable gifts are a series of pictures
illustrative of English, French and German gardens.
History of Garden Art
FIG. 593. WORLITZ-GROUND-PLAN
England there was not only a great literature of gardening, but a goodly number of
examples. He had steeped himself in the new ideas, and felt that he was the representative
of good taste, and its champion in the fatherland. So, as Goethe says, he lighted with his
own fire the emulation and enthusiasm of the rest. In his five volumes he embraces all
the essentials of the garden: theoretical, aesthetic, and historical. He tries to inspire the
artist, the amateur, the gardener, by giving many examples, by his treatment of individual
cases, by criticism and instruction. His most valuable gifts are a series of pictures
illustrative of English, French and German gardens.