A GARDEN IN VENICE 



now become an inner one, has been lowered in 

 height, so that the two plots of land may become 

 more intimately one. 



Along the inner side of this wall grow broken 

 clumps of bays, pomegranates, and zizole, as the 

 jujube tree, zigzaggy in its form, is phonetic- 

 ally named. On the outside is a border, two 

 hundred yards in length, with an almost un- 

 broken line of China roses, having anemones at 

 their feet. The ground is further divided trans- 

 versely with vine hedges, and has three cross 

 paths bordered by China roses standing in a 

 carpet of hyacinths, tulips, and wood straw- 

 berries. 



The vine hedges, with their long waving and 

 climbing shoots, green in summer, grape adorned 

 in autumn, make a brave show in aesthetics and 

 economy. The strips of land that divide the 

 hedges are rich with Lucerne that, cut five times 

 a year, gives green crops as required for the 

 cows, or a cut of hay sweet and succulent. The 

 view inwards shows our garden trees massed 

 almost as a wood, from whence, its lower portion 

 no 



