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THE ART OF GARDEN DESIGN IN ITALY 



the House of the Medusa and the Casa Grande, Pompeii, are very perfect specimens/ In the latter 

 examples the design is most effectively carried out in mosaic and shellwork combined. 



In many of the wall-paintings, both at Herculaneum and Pompeii, varieties of ephemeral 

 structures are represented — fountains, nymphasa, shrines, temples, aviaries, and summer-houses, 



generally of wood ; enclosures of treillage, with angle-posts carved and decorated. In the peristyle 

 of the garden of Sallust is an excellent representation. The house of Pansa at Pompeii occupies 

 a complete ' insula ' or block, and here, besides an atrium and large peristyle, there was a xystus or 

 garden occupying the entire width of the block. It was overlooked on the side of the house by an 



TREILLAGE DESIGN in ANCIENT. GARDEN , I^m a F^co ^at POMPEII 



open portico, and above this formed a long balcony surveying the garden. Sometimes, where there 

 was no second story, a terrace garden was established, with masonry piers supporting massive 

 timbers, beams, and vine-clad pergolas, with flowers and shrubs in boxes ; the walls of such a 

 terrace would be hollowed out on the top and the space planted with trailing flowers similar to the 



^ See Lewis Gruner, Sj>ecimcns of Ornamental Art, 1853, where a reproduction of this fountain is given in colour. 



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