admittance, he will find something of interest in al- 

 most every one. This is the case also in the neigh- 

 borhood of Siena ; and while no one of these gardens 

 is of great importance, they have a character as a 

 whole which one should study to get a complete idea 

 of Italian gardening. The gardens of Genoa are par- 

 ticularly worthy of study from this point of view. 

 The character of the landscape here is extremely 

 abrupt, and great ingenuity has been shown by the 

 architects in planning villas in harmony with their 

 surroundings. In the city itself each of the palaces 

 has its own small garden, sometimes on the terrace 

 reached from the wing, but more frequently above the 

 main part of the palace, and reached by intricate and 

 varied stairways. Formerly the gardens of the more 

 important of these palaces stretched to the shore of 

 the harbor; but with Genoa's prosperity these have 

 now almost completely disappeared, to make place for 

 new quays and streets and other improvements of a 

 modern city. Of the two or three remaining ones the 

 Rosazza has the most marked characteristics of a 

 Genoa garden. Made on the extremely abrupt slope 

 at the north side of the harbor, the paths and terraces 

 and fountains rise one above another, and are very 



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