Following this, the seventeenth-century records of missionaries and envoys to China appeared, revealing a continuous stream of descriptions of Chinese gardens. These were quickly translated into English and disseminated. Moreover, the English intellectuals in those days were no strangers to Latin and French.
此後，尤其是十七世紀歐洲傳教士、使節團的中國遊記見聞裡，陸續出現了許多關於中國園林的描述，並且很快有英譯傳世；而當時的英國知識份子，對於拉丁文與法文也絕不陌生。