Excerpt from Gardens in the Making
This little book is the outcome of much practical study of the principles of garden-design, - principles which are better understood, though not always more consistently followed at the present day, than when they were revived by the late George Devey and others in the middle of the last century. Penshurst Place was one of the first notable examples, foreshadowing the present "renaissance" of the formal garden, and Penshurst was the outcome of the united zeal of Devey and of his patron Lord de L'Isle. It has taken some fifty years for the leaven to work, and the change in public opinion has been aided by many enthusiastic writers and workers, but none were more steadfast in their support of the older and saner methods of planning than Mr. Devey and his surviving partner, Mr. James Williams.
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