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arcades. The tiny monk's garden is delightfully 

 planned, the centre being enclosed with a stone rail, 

 of which the angles are gracefully carved. The 

 public is admitted to this delightful little retreat, 

 so it need not be described more fully here. A 

 long stone pergola, hung with vines, leads to the 

 large fish pond, usually a prominent feature of a 

 monastery garden. This part of the grounds is not 

 shown, but there is nothing specially interesting 

 about its design. 



GIUSTI GARDENS, VERONA. 



No record is to be found among the public archives 

 of the building of this town palace nor of the laying 

 out of the gardens. Dr. G. Burnet, who visited the 

 garden in 1685, writes : " There is a noble garden 

 in Verona, that riseth up in Terraces the whole 

 height of a Hill." And John Evelyn, in his Diary, 

 says : " At the entrance of this garden grows the 

 goodliest cypress, I fancy, in Europe, cut in a 

 pyramid." We know that in 1739 a parterre and a 

 maze still existed. These have now disappeared, 

 and the only survival of the original plan is the 

 glorious cypress walk, beginning near the entrance 

 gate and rising first in a slope and then by terraces 

 to the culminating point of the grounds. There 

 are a couple of fountains on the lowest level of the 

 gardens. 



