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Tuscan villa, which were those that 

 strongly marked the art at the time, and 

 which continued for centuries. The ex- 

 cavations at Herculaneum have revealed 

 to us, by means of the paintings there 

 discovered, the appearance that the gar- 

 dens of the townsmen presented. These, 

 although small and hedged about in vari- 

 ous ways, were adorned according to the 

 prevailing taste with urns, fountains, 

 statues, etc., while at the windows of the 

 houses were boxes and pots of flowers. 



Our knowledge of the variety of flowers 

 recognized or cultivated by the Romans 

 is meagre. Livy, in describing the gar- 

 den of Tarquin the Proud, as it existed 

 two hundred years after the foundation 

 of Rome, speaks of beds of roses, lilies, 

 poppies, and various sweet-smelling herbs. 



Virgil, in his fourth Georgia, most 

 charmingly introduces, in his gracefully 

 measured verses, his old friend Corycius 

 at work in his garden cultivating the 

 roses which bore their blossoms twice in 

 a year, the narcissus, white lilies, pop- 



