HOURS IN OTHER GARDENS 



rising to the setting of the burning sun, those treasures 

 of exquisite beauty on the hills of Florence, the Villas 

 Incontri, Gamberaia, and Palmieri of happy memories, 

 the cloisters of church and convent dotting the land of 

 Italy! 



Yet, though we rejoice in the French and Italian 

 ideals, it is largely to the English people scattered 

 throughout the globe that we owe our successful gar- 

 dens, and from this kaleidoscopic picture three won- 

 derful creations of man stand forth preeminent; La 

 Mortola on the Riviera, Lord Kitchener's Island at 

 Assouan, and the Garden of Eden at Venice. One a 

 rock promontory on the sea, one a sandbar in a tropi- 

 cal stream, one a salt marsh; the problems were very 

 different, but each one was solved by an English mind. 



The most extensive and the most important by far is 

 La Mortola. What art was required to compose any- 

 thing so scientific and complete yet so wholly beautiful! 

 Scientists and artists alike worship at its shrine. In 

 May the whole country of Italy is indeed one varied 

 garden, as England is in June. But in February — to 



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