In the past, the formal classical garden had been based on that of the royal palace. Beginning with the gardens built by the Egyptians on the banks of the Nile, it had used straight lines and rectangles to create order and symmetry out of nature.
在過去，正統古典園林是皇宮的延伸，從埃及人在尼羅河岸建造樂園開始，西方花園就是以直線與矩型為基準，為大自然理出秩序與對稱。