This is because although Attiret's letters were translated into English in 1749 (by Burlington's circle), and the forty scenes of the Yuan Mingyuan reached England in the 1760s, the garden of Burlington and Kent had already appeared in the 1720s.
王致誠神父的書信首度英譯（也出自勃靈頓文人圈之手）是一七四九年，四十景銅版畫抵英，則在一七六○年代；而勃靈頓公爵與肯特的自然園林濫觴，出現於十七世紀二○年代。