...habitat-making in its advanced mode with the creation of gardens: 'when Ages grow to Civility and Elegancie, Men come to Build Stately, sooner than to Garden finely, as if Gardening were the Greater perfection' (Essays, 1625). Bacon's distinction between the two modes, his acknowledgement of their relationship...

...Francis Bacon noted, garden-making followed upon building: "When Ages grow to Civility and Elegancie, Men come to Build Stately, sooner than to Garden Finely: As if Gardening were the Greater Perfection."81 This tardiness of "fine" gardening in the cultural process has many explanations. The...

...greatest refreshment to the spirits of man; without which buildings and palaces are but gross handy-works: and a man shall ever see, that, when ages grow to...finely; as if gardening were the greater perfection. Francis Bacon Of Gardens i625 Ilfaut cultiver not re jardin. Voltaire V, '" " " ^ ', • .,-, • ••....

...tous ceux qui, comme ce Heros, favorient apprecier son merite." Ages grow to Civility and Elegancie, Men come to Build Stately, sooner than to Garden Finely: As if Gardening were the Greater Perfection." Quoted in John Dixon Hunt and Peter Willis, eds., The Genius of the Place, 5 1 . The similarity was...

...rapidly anyway : it had caught on. We see that Bacon's famous essay had all this for its background. "When ages grow to civility and elegancy men come...to garden finely: as if gardening were the greater perfection."5 We can get an intimate close-up of the routine of agricultural life from a rare Elizabethan...

...greatest refreshment to the spirits of man, without which buildings and palaces are but gross handy-works: and a man shall ever see that when ages grow to civility...the greater perfection. I do hold it, in the royal ordering of gardens, there ought to be gardens for all the months in the year, in which severally things...

...the cynical Bacon had opened a famous essay by declaring that 'God Almighty first planted a garden... and a man shall ever see that when ages grow to civility...finely; as if gardening were the greater perfection." 44 If, though, for him the fashionable knot gardens were 'but toys (you may see as good sights many...

...also had considerable plans for the garden: Bacon had suggested that gardening surpassed architecture ('men come to build stately sooner than to garden...finely, as if gardening were the greater perfection'). 35 Before Mary's mother left for Paris and the new household at Sayes Court settled into its domestic...

...growth in all wholesome Art, and gardening at its best is a fine art. For ever true is what Bacon says: 'Men come to build stately sooner than to garden finely, as if gardening were the greater perfection.' To borrow illustrations from other arts, the champions of the formal garden only would stop short at...