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xii INTRODUCTION
“ Stream of the World,” which, according to Goethe,
forms Characters, as distinguished from the Talent,
which is shaped “in der Stille.”
In the present volume they have their place chiefly
as Garden lovers, or, to use Evelyn’s words, as “ Para-
dis! Cultores—Paradisean and Hortulan Saints,” and
only incidentally will they be referred to in any other
capacity.
This group of writers not only represents in Liter-
ature a distinct school of thought and action, with
views of life very closely akin, but also a definite
variation of the Garden-Art, from the spacious age of
Elizabeth and Bacon, which revelled in the terraced
and statued Architectural gardens of Italy, (derived
from the great Roman builders of Gardens,) and
adapted to English needs and taste. Passing through
the grand style of Le Notre—or the Horizontal garden
so characteristic of the ceremonial display of France
and its Grand Monarch,—the Revolution brings us
to the Dutch Regime, represented at its culminating
point in England by Hampton Court under London
and Wise ; and in Holland, whence the idee mere was
derived, by the princely gardens of Loo, Ryswick and
Hanslerdyck. This last phase might, I think, be
called the Canal type of Garden—since Water in
“ Stream of the World,” which, according to Goethe,
forms Characters, as distinguished from the Talent,
which is shaped “in der Stille.”
In the present volume they have their place chiefly
as Garden lovers, or, to use Evelyn’s words, as “ Para-
dis! Cultores—Paradisean and Hortulan Saints,” and
only incidentally will they be referred to in any other
capacity.
This group of writers not only represents in Liter-
ature a distinct school of thought and action, with
views of life very closely akin, but also a definite
variation of the Garden-Art, from the spacious age of
Elizabeth and Bacon, which revelled in the terraced
and statued Architectural gardens of Italy, (derived
from the great Roman builders of Gardens,) and
adapted to English needs and taste. Passing through
the grand style of Le Notre—or the Horizontal garden
so characteristic of the ceremonial display of France
and its Grand Monarch,—the Revolution brings us
to the Dutch Regime, represented at its culminating
point in England by Hampton Court under London
and Wise ; and in Holland, whence the idee mere was
derived, by the princely gardens of Loo, Ryswick and
Hanslerdyck. This last phase might, I think, be
called the Canal type of Garden—since Water in