According to William Chambers, Controller of the Royal Architecture for King George Ⅲ of England in the late eighteenth century, Chinese gardeners were not only botanists. They also had to be artists and philosophers--unlike in his own country where, he claimed, they "emerge from the melon grounds."
「中國的造園家，以自然為藍本；他們不單是花匠，也是深明人性的畫家與哲學家……；在另外一個有名的國度裡，農夫們離開瓜田，便成園師，與中國全然不同。」十八世紀下半葉，英皇喬治三世的皇家建築總監錢柏斯如是說。