To top all this, you had to take the long route through the large expanse that could be taken in at a glance, by following a winding path. When Chambers talked of English gardeners as "emerging from the melon grounds," he was undoubtedly making a sarcastic aside at Brown, the untutored professional who had indeed started out in the kitchen garden.
峰迴路轉，柳暗花明「離開瓜田，便成園師」的暗諷，無疑是衝著從蔬果園丁幹起、未經學院訓練的造園師布朗而來。