AND GARDENS 



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ORNIA 



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BY HORATIO F. STOLL 

 Photographs by Harold A. Parker 



t none can boast of a more romantic setting or a stronger individuality 

 my Montecito, where the temperature has but a ten degree variation he- 

 lve of the hillside gardens of the Kasr-Kajar, near Teheran, or of the 

 otus-covered pools, its brick-paved walks, shadow flecked by great trees, 

 is the privilege of viewing them. Unlike most Persian gardens, where 

 as a plentiful and constant supply. A little spring, away up on the hill— 



a rectangular bathing pool which it enters at the center of a high-walled 

 a, the water again appears from the mouth of a beautifully designed 



The overflow water then trickles down the middle of a long walk, 

 reamlet. The Gillespie home is a Roma Villa of purest type and is ap- 

 nix canariensis palms. In front of the house are four rectangular basins 

 They are from 12 to 18 inches in depth and are lined with greenish-blue 



suggest the con- 

 f an unclouded 

 r rom this upper 



leads down to 

 ain. Below is a 

 :k steps and then 

 ; sprinkled with 

 onded by cypress 

 > a wind break. 



