The Italian Formal Garden 



vast park, with its drixes for iiorseback riding, its brooks and 

 bridges, its covers for game, its preserves for deer, all that 

 was peculiar and essential to the life of the English or French 

 nobleman, was wholly out of the question here. All the ideas 

 and conceptions of landscape gardening which, inherited from 

 our English and French ancestors, we have derived from their 

 ideal of the forest park, with its vast expanses of grass, thickets 

 and trees, trimmed out and smoothed down b}' the gardener's 

 care, and extended by art over other expanses at first destitute 



LONG NATURAL ARBORS' 



The Boboli Gardens, Florence 



of shade or wanting in natural picturesc|ueness — these ideals 

 and conceptions were, perforce, excluded from the problem of 

 villa design. The two kinds of gardening serve diflierent pur- 

 poses and belong to different conditions. Each has its own 

 beauty, each is perfectly legitimate ; both systems alike com- 

 pel nature to do the designer's bidding, both involve the re- 

 modeling of the earth's surface, the destruction of some of 

 nature's productions, the recreation or substitution of others. 

 But they proceed upon dift'erent lines, by difterent methods, 



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