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GARDEN CRAFT IN EUROPE 



tress villa at Cafaggiuolo, but no vestige of these gardens now exists. The 

 example of Cosimo de Medici was soon followed by other members of his 

 family, each vying with the other in efforts to create more grandiose schemes, 

 so that in addition to the great palace in Florence they had no less than 



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TOPIARY DESIGNS. 



A TREILLAGE SCREEN. 

 GARDEN DETAILS FROM " POLIPHILI HYPNEROTOMACHIA." 



eleven magnificent villas in the immediate vicinity. The Boboli gardeiiy 

 laid out upon the hillside behind the Pitti Palace, was begun in 1549 by 

 Eleonora de Medici, who commissioned Buontalenti and II Tribolo to 

 design the gardens extending to the south and west of the palace. The 

 character of these has been but little altered, and nowhere are we better 



