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ENGLISH PLEASURE GARDENS 



The Barocco 

 period. 



The old 

 Italian 

 gardens at 

 Wilton. 



The barocco period is demonstrated in the villas 

 Medici, Albani, Aldobrandini, Pamphili-Doria, and in 

 many others in the neighbourhood of Rome as well as 

 scattered all over Italy. At 

 this time the palace was en- 

 riched by heavy ornamentation, 

 the garden became correspond- 

 ingly pompous, and the gen- 

 eral effect was rather too 

 magnificent. The Villa Pam- 

 phili-Doria is one of the most 

 elaborate examples in this style. Below the handsome 

 palace is a broad terrace, covered with a typical parterre, 

 large and well kept up. The 

 ground is planted with an 

 intricate tracery of box ac- 

 cented by shrubs grown in 

 decorative flower-pots. This 

 kind of parterre has been fre- 

 quently copied in England, 

 but seldom with much suc- 

 cess. The Italian gardens of 

 an earlier period are better 

 adapted for reproduction in 

 northern countries. 



One of the oldest Italian designs was carried out at 

 Wilton, for the Earl of Pembroke, by Isaac de Caux, 



THE COLUMN AT WILTON 



