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GARDEN CRAFT IN EUROPE 



of Italian garden-craft. Everywhere one feels a sense of quiet repose, due 

 principally to the fact that no effort has been made to produce the violent 

 contrasts in tree planting that so often quite destroy the charm of modern 

 gardens. Stone-pine and ilex give a pleasing setting to the cool greys and 

 green tones of the Casino at all seasons of the year. 



THE AVIARY Vai^LA. BORGHESE , ROME 



In the early years of the seventeenth century Scipione Borghese, the 

 nephew of Pope Paul V, began to lay out the Villa Borghese. The Casino 

 was designed about 1618 by Giovanni Vansanzio, a Flemish architect, and 

 the grounds were originally laid out by Rainaldi and afterwards extended 

 and remodelled. The gardens were famous in the seventeenth century for 

 their wonderful fountains and grottos, and for a collection of " simples,'* 



