European and Japanese Gardens 



Boboli at Florence, belonging to the Pitti Palace, and the 

 Borghese at Rome. These were terraced to afford an arena 

 and open-air seating for athletic sports and mummeries in the 

 olden time, and may not always haxe been covered with grass, 

 but they are very beautiful in their present condition of refresh- 

 ing greenness. 



IV. 



The garden, thus treated, was, as I have said, designed 

 under special conditions and for a particular purpose. It was 



WHERE THE GROUNDS ARE SUFFICIENTLY EXTENSIVE' 



The Boboli Gardens 



intended first as the decorative setting for the social as well as 

 private life of a very rich, worldly and splendor-loving aris- 

 tocracy ; secondly, as an approach and environment for the 

 palace, villa or casino of the proprietor, with which it must form 

 an artistically congruous whole. It is evident that there could 

 be here no question of rivalry with other kinds of gardens. The 



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