cast their pleasant shadows. The enclosure is completed by a " water 

 theatre " of the simpler order at the end opposite to the casino. 



Within this enclosure lies the parterre, which consists of six plots of 

 clipped box, some of the beds having flowers, others depending for their 

 effect solely on the rich green of the box and the play of light about it. 

 Of these plots the two principal ones occupy the whole centre of the 

 garden and are composed of two shields of arms and their mantling 

 or frame work, all cut in box about six inches high. The shield to the 

 right bears the arms of the Aldobrandini family, which was connected 

 with the Lancellotti by marriage. 



Of such coats of arms, which are frequently to be found in Italian 

 gardens, good examples are to be seen in the Villa Chigi, the Villa 

 Garzoni, and at the Vatican, where four of them are ranged round the 

 central fountain in the private garden. These are the coats of arms 

 of the reigning Pope, the older ones having been destroyed to make 

 place for them. 



Instead of terminating abruptly at the ends of the parterre, the beds 

 bend away gracefully to right and left in a series of scrolls and curves. 

 Immediately within the straight outer box border, which forms the 

 frame work, low stone pedestals stand at intervals supporting the usual 

 lemon pots. These are rather more ornate than usual, the lower part 

 having acanthus-leaf ornament in low relief, the upper half having 

 festoons of fruit and flowers hung from masks or rosettes with coats 

 of arms between them. 



This parterre occupies a place midway between the simpler geo- 

 metrical garden, common enough in England at one time, and the 

 somewhat over-blown Parterre de Broderte, which correctly should have 

 no flowers at all. 



At the further end of the garden, opposite the casino, is the " water 

 theatre," that pleasing combination of terrace-wall and fountain, which 

 is a characteristic feature of the Frascati villas. Nowhere else is it to be 

 found carried to such a pitch of perfection, thanks no doubt, in the first 

 instance, to a plentiful water-supply as well as to the skill of the 

 architects. 



This fountain, however, compared with that, for instance, in the 



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