156 GARDENS : THEIR FORM AND DESIGN 



pots, is decorative. We sometimes see such work well 

 carried out in restaurants and public places abroad, but 

 only comparatively few business-houses in England have 

 adopted the plan. It is worth study, and those who wish 

 for ideas upon the subject will find many suggestions for 



original designs in Perelle's 

 book, " Vues des Belles 

 Maisons de France." 



In old French books we 

 obtain ideas like Fig. 94, 

 where are walls covered 

 with treillage-work ; and 

 apparently upon the top is 

 a passage roof-garden, and 

 little bay-trees in pots lead 

 to a shadow-house or treil- 

 laged bower. 



The roof garden of to- 

 day in Italy is of a simple 

 style, but it represents very 

 truly a garden. In Genoa, 

 as the palaces are large and the ground upon which the 

 town is built resembles an amphitheatre, it is difficult to 

 get much land to cultivate. Each house therefore has a 

 roof garden. From the summit of the hill, overlooking the 

 town and the fine harbour below, houses have a wonder- 

 ful appearance ; for small arbours, bright with wistaria, 

 roses and vines, and ornamental pots and boxes gay with 

 flowers, are apparently suspended in the air. The only 

 features that recall to us the manner in which they all 

 exist in the sky are the chimney-pots, and these in Italy 

 are usually very artistic in shape, so that they by no 

 means mar the beauty of the scene. 



Probably, if we looked more closely at the plaister- 

 work of some, we should see that a broken plate projects. 



FIG. 94. 



