ON GARDENS 229 



Adjoining to this (St. Maria in Navicula) are the 

 Horti Mathsei, which only of all the places about the 

 Citty I omitted visiting, tho' I was told inferiour to no 

 garden in Rome for statues, ancient monuments, aviaries, 

 fountaines, groves, and especialy a noble obelisq, and 

 maintain'd in beauty at the expense of 6000 crownes 

 yearely, which if not expended to keepe up its beauty 

 forfeits the possession of a greater revenue to another 

 family ; so curious are they in their villas and places of 

 pleasure, even to exccsse. 



The gardens of Justinian, which we next visited, 

 are very full of statues and antiquities, especialy urnes, 

 amongst which is that of Min. Felix ; a Terminus 

 that formerly stood in the Appian Way, and a huge 

 colosse of the Emperor Justinian. There is a delicate 

 aviarie on the hill ; the whole gardens furnish'd with 

 rare collections, fresh, shady, and adorn'd with noble 

 fountaines. 



After dinner we went again to see the Villa Bor- 

 ghesi, about a mile without the Cittie ; the garden is 

 rather a park or paradise, contriv'd and planted with 

 walkes and shades of myrtils, cypresse and other trees 



