European and Japanese Gardens 



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THE ORANGERY 



VERSAILLES 



effect, the least advanced of all the arts. Consequently the 

 characteristics of the various peoples practicing it were little 

 marked, for the early arts of all peoples much resemble one 

 another ; it is only at the higher, and especially the highest 

 points of their respective developments, that the finer and more 

 characteristic elements of a race are brought out in its art 

 accomplishment. 



Du Cerceau, in commenting upon the undoubted influence 

 which the taste of the Italians exercised over their northern 

 neighbors, outlines the type which was common in both France 

 and Italy. "Everywhere," he says," were great divisions with 

 avenues of high trees, fences of hazel, and hedges of hawthorne. 

 Long, trellised arbors, opening out at intervals into shady sum- 

 mer-houses, ideally arranged for scenes of gallantry, sur- 

 rounded the open central space, or divided it into several 

 individual gardens. Marble basins with spouting water-jets 

 and' cascades, gliding from artificial rocks, made up the prin- 



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