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has designs traced out in box and myrtle, and the topmost of all is orna- 

 mented with a row of green enamelled earthenware busts. Fountains 

 abound everywhere ; they are invariably small and often consist of merely 

 a tiny jet of 

 water set with- 

 in a stone basin. 

 Curious fea- 

 tures of the 

 garden are two 

 cypress ar- 

 bours, one in 

 the centre of 

 the lower ter- 

 race, made of 

 eight cypresses 

 bent inwards 

 and joined at 

 the top to form 

 a dome (illus., 

 p. 279). Gau- 

 tier, when he 

 visited the gar- 

 den, found the 

 arbour like an 

 immense bas- 

 ket covered 

 with flowers. 

 The garden is 

 bordered upon 

 one side by 

 a stairway, 

 broken at in- 

 tervals corresponding with the levels of the terraces by small circular 

 resting places, which have been planned each with a tiny pool and fountain 

 jet, shooting a crystal aigrette into the thick growth of trees overhead. 

 Water runs down on both sides in silvery streams with a gay murmur in 



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