Quotations about John Claudius Loudon

"Loudon must be considered the Father of the English Garden, as this expression is understood today." L Fleming and A Gore The English Garden. Michael Joseph 1979

Loudon was "The man of genius, and of incredible industry, who linked the Pope-Brown-Repton era to the era of high gardening" Edward Hyams The English Garden

"Whilst at Tew, Loudon ran a course for the sons of the landed gentry and aspiring land-stewards, which was remarkable for being the first instance of a formal training in agriculture.’ Georgian gardens : the reign of nature by  David Jacques

"Few Scotsmen have exerted a greater influence on the environment of English life than John Claudius Loudon. No study of Victorian domestic architecture and furniture design is thorough unless serious attention is given to his published works," John Gloag Mr Loudon's England

"The style known as gardenesque was expounded by J.C. Loudon a follower of Repton, whose influence through popular publications was universal." The landscape of man Geoffrey and Susan Jellicoe 

"John Claudius Loudon, the Scottish landscape gardener was a meticulous designer, a sound theorist, an eminent horticulturalist, and a charitable, sometimes charming man. Imaginative and far-sighted, he was often the first to propose an innovation that would later be developed by others." Melanie Louise Simo Loudon and the landscape 

"The most vigorous champion of Price and Knight was John Claudius Loudon, from whom a stream of books proceeded for forty years after 1800, dealing with landscape gardening, architecture, farming, and forestry." Christopher Hussey The Picturesque 

"J.C. Loudon, a child of the Enlightenment, applied reason to many environmental questions." Tom Turner City as landscape

"It is often incorrectly assumed that Humphry Repton and J. C. Loudon, in England, had earlier used the title “landscape architect”; both men styled themselves “landscape gardeners” (a title that Olmsted rejected), whereas by their infrequently used term “landscape architecture” they referred only to buildings in the landscape. N.T. Newton Design on the land development of landscape architecture 

"Loudon was the self-appointed spokesman for something he chose to call the “Gardenesque School of Landscape.” This “school” was indicative of the lamentable state of affairs into which matters had slumped after Repton’s passing, with emphasis now given exotic plants, single specimen trees, and other botanical and purely horticultural interests of the country’s practical head gardeners. N.T. Newton Design on the land development of landscape architecture

"Despite its unhappy deterioration under Loudon and his followers, the landscape gardening movement was included, some twenty years after Repton’s death, in an epochal shift from private to public service. This event, of great significance to the then imminent profession of landscape architecture, came at a moment when two historic streams of progress were converging." N.T. Newton Design on the land development of landscape architecture 

'We shall notice first, as the most essential to the library of our non-professional readers who may at some time of their lives propose to build a cottage or country-house, Loudon's Encyclopædia of Cottage and Village Architecture...  the late Mr. Loudon has the merit of having conveyed more information upon Architecture in a popular style, as adapted for general readers, than had ever been attempted before, or than has been accomplished since. The death of Mr. Loudon is a public calamity, and we regret much to learn from the appeal circulated by his friends, that his indefatigable industry was not rewarded with that reasonable independence which such a man ought to have been enabled to enjoy and bequeath to his family. Mr. Loudon had been obliged to employ an amanuensis and a draughtsman in all his literary labours for the last twenty years. His right arm had been amputated, and he retained only the use of two fingers of the left hand.' The Westminster Review 1844 

See also: Gardenvisit.com appreciation of John Claudius Loudon.