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THE ART OF GARDEN DESIGN IN ITALY 



foreground to one of the finest views over Rome, with its endless variety of domes and 



towers. 



The upper level of the garden is divided into two parts by an alley ascending from the 

 principal entrance in the Vico del Quirinale ; one half consists of a ' bosco ' of cypress, ilex and 



pine ; the other and larger half is laid out as 

 an orange garden, with simple parterre of box 

 and little intersecting walks meeting in a cir- 



cular grassplot and central basin. Orange- 

 trees in massive earthenware vases accentuate 





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the principal points of the design, and in 



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the beds fruit-trees, irregularly planted, remove 

 any feeling of stiffness there might other- 

 wise have been. Along the western wall of 

 this garden it is interesting to note the 

 arrangement made for housing the orange- 

 trees during the winter months. A series of 

 permanent stone bases are fixed in the ground 

 some ten feet apart and about twelve feet 

 from the wall ; these have square holes sunk, 

 into which the wooden uprights are placed, 

 and support a continuous beam upon which 

 the rafters rest, a lean-to roof, with loose tiles, 

 easily removed. Against the wall is a raised 

 bed, its outer coping consisting of a stone irrigating channel, into which, at certain hours, 

 the water is turned. This method of constructing temporary 'stanzoni' is frequently in use 

 where no permanent ones exist, or, if existing, are of insufficient capacity for the enormous 

 numbers of trees that many villas keep up. 



