CHAPTER XV 



HOURS IN OTHER GARDENS 



WHEN one has a hobby it is extraordinary how 

 it pursues one, how it appears and claims 

 one's interest in the most unexpected places! 

 Perhaps this is particularly true of gardens, which were 

 from the beginning and always have been and always 

 will be. Some of our happiest moments when travel- 

 ing have been in "discovering" them. Not only fa- 

 mous gardens such as those around Rome, the moss- 

 grown villas at Frascati and Tivoli, the Villa Lante 

 near Viterbo, the Villa Caprarola, and Cesarini on the 

 Lake of Nemi (what enchanting pictures the mere 

 names bring to mind!), but the others less known and 

 even more charming in various parts of the world; the 

 overflowing cottage gardens of England, the parks 

 of France and Germany, the miniature landscapes of 

 Japan, the botanical curiosities of Cairo and Ceylon, 

 the precious turf of Rangoon kept drenched from the 



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