VARIOUS FLOWER GARDENS, 



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gardens has been to allow no vegetation on the walls or balustrades, 

 but the older and graceful way is to garland all wall surfaces with 

 beautiful life, and not to wholly hide them in doing so. Dividing 



lines and walls may do their work without being as bare as if in a 

 stonemason's yard. 



The idea of the terrace garden came from the steep slopes of Italy 



