PRACTICAL BOOK OF GARDEN ARCHITECTURE 



plore fascinating woodland roads, where many of 

 the fine old trees have rustic stairways leading up to 

 secluded tea rooms built in their wide^ spreading 

 branches; where bits of artistic pottery and roomy 

 marble garden-seats imported from sunny Italy 

 call to mind the garden magic of the villa-clad; 

 hills and woodlands of ancient Florence ; where walks 

 cut through stately avenues of trees remind one 

 of the famous cypress alley of the Boboli garden, 

 and intertwined branches of trees forming archways 

 over secluded walks, vie in beauty with the ilex walk 

 of the same celebrated Italian garden; where tall 

 pedestal lanterns of stone are set, seemingly to light 

 up dark places in the turns of the winding roadways, 

 and to guard alluring bits of unusual landscape 

 gardening. In fact these woodland gardens may well 

 be called "surprise gardens," so varied are the 

 quaint types of old-world attractions introduced, and 

 so frequently does one come upon a delightful sur- 

 prise at the curves in the drives and walks. In con- 

 necting the woods or garden grove with the lawns 

 and flower gardens, bits of dry-wall gardening, rustic 

 steps, and quaint old stiles have Florentine oil jars 

 and unique bits of garden pottery set in secluded 

 nooks; while quaint water jars and well heads are 

 appropriately placed in permanent positions along 

 the woodland lakes and streams. 



