The gardener's magazine and register of rural & domestic improvement (1826)
Loudon, J. C. (John Claudius), 1783-1843, A. & R. Spottiswoode, printer, United States. Patent Office. Scientific Library, former owner DSI · London : Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green · leaf 437
t: it is just as impos-sible, in short, for a person who has never sketched trees to seethem with the eye of an artist, as it is for a person who has notstudied botany to look at flowers or leaves with the eye of abotanist. Let it never be forgotten by the young gardener, thata landscape-gardener,… … Were drawing in all its departments as universally taught toyouth as reading and writing are, every person would be just asable to depict by sketches whatever visible objects come beforehim, as he is to write down by words whatever he may hearspoken ; but, as these times have not yet arrived, every…
