A GARDEN IN VENICE 



and respectful worshipper and worker in one who 

 really loved it would leave some impress on it. 



There are others made di nuovo, and on these 

 the owner may let his fancy run, or call in the 

 aid of the high priests of gardening, who, with 

 dogmatic confidence, tell us what is wrong and 

 what is right. And there are some like the 

 garden of our story, for which the main design 

 has already long been drawn, with full scope left 

 for filling in details. 



To achieve this worthily, we called up memory 

 in aid of our conception and borrowed from the 

 gardens we had seen. I have said how we got 

 help from distant Ross-shire for the general plan. 

 We turned to it again for the completion of the 

 picture, getting other ideas, however, from Bat- 

 taglia, close at hand ; and from gardens as far 

 apart in distance, climate, and mise en scene as 

 Hampton Court and the gardens of the Moorish 

 Generaliffe at Granada. 



One or two of the squares, formed in accord- 

 ance with the Scottish design, were at once stolen 

 from Pietro's vegetables and laid out in rose 

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