A GARDEN IN VENICE 



with bush and standard roses, the long continuous 

 border of the Generaliffe got cut up into small 

 beds by transverse paths for the convenience of 

 tending and picking the roses. Standing back 

 in each corner, the better to remind us of Spain, 

 is a Chamoerops palm, grown now into trees 

 more than twenty feet in height. Some bamboos 

 too throw shadows on the water, and leaving 

 out the temple that I could not copy, I have 

 replaced it at either end by a rose-clad felse, as 

 they call a tunnelled bower here, of at one end 

 Celine Forrestier, and at the other some climbing 

 Devoniensis, that have now ceded the place to 

 Reine Marie Henriette. The sunny side of 

 the Celine Forrestier is, when in bloom, a sight 

 to see. 



To make the reservoir or vasca the earth was 

 excavated for the dimensions above given to a 

 depth of six feet. About two feet below the 

 surface the earth proper gave place to brick 

 rubbish, showing that the way of reclamation I 

 had afterwards a painful chance of seeing, was 

 carried out by the fathers of Venice as it is now 



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