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dcfcrîptions of two of hîs 'villas. As he ufed hls Laurenttne 

 villa for his winter-retreat, it is not furprifing that tbe 

 garden makes no conjiderabk part of the account. AU be 

 fays of it is, that the gejlatio or place of exercife, ivhicb 

 furrounded the garden (the latter confequently not being very 

 large) was boiinded by a hedge of box, and where tbat was 

 perijhed, with rofemary, that there was a walk of vines, 

 and that mojî of the trees werefg and mulberry, thefotl not 

 being proper for any other forts, 



.. On his 'Tifcan villa he is more diffufe, the garden makes 



a confiderable part of the defcription and what was the 



principal beauty of that pleafure-ground ? ExaSlly what was 

 the admiration of this country about threefcore y car s ago^ 

 box'trees eut into monjlers^ anifnalsy le t ter s, and the names 

 of the mafter and the artificer. In an âge when architecture 

 difplayed ail its grandeur, ail its purity, and ail its tafiei 

 when arofe Vefpafians amphithéâtre, the temple of Peace, 

 Trajans forum, Domitians baths, and Adrians villa, the 

 ruins and vejiiges of which fiill excite our aflonifoment and 

 curiofty ', a Roman conful, a polijloed emperors friend, and 

 a man of élégant littérature and tafie, delighted in what tbe 

 mob now f car ce admire in a collège- garden, AU the ingre-» 



dients 



