ABSTRACT
Many accounts by travelers returning from England to the Continent, and an increasing number of pub lications circulating in Europe during the first part of the eight eenth century, reported that something signi fic ant in landscape design was happening there: a new ‘English way’ in garden architecture that broke uni ver sal, classical dogmas and em braced nat ural regionalist values. The English welcomed the visitors who arrived to examine their ‘English gardens’ and, as Horace Walpole wrote to George Selwyn, they found this anglomanie flattering and amusing.1
