Book I. 



GARDENS OF THE ROMANS. 



II 



house opening into a green enclosure, and furnished with a fountain similar to that last described, fronted 

 the above. Throughout the walks were scattered marble seats, near to each of which was a little fountain ; 

 and throughout the whole small rills of water were artificially conducted among the walks, that served to 

 entertain the ear with their murmurs as well as to water the garden. {Historical View, &c. p. 53. ; Pliny's 

 Epistles, b. v. letter 6. j Felihien, Plans et Descr. j CasteWs Villas of the Ancients.) 



42. The details of the Tusculan Villa are thus given by Castell. {Fig. 3.) 



(13) 



Villa, or house. 



Gestatio, or place of exercise for chariots. 



Ambulatio, or walk surrounding the terraces. 



The slope, with the forms of beasts cut in box. 



The xystus, or terrace, before the porticus, and on the 



sides of the house. 

 The hippodrome, or plain so called, on the north side of 



the house. 



Plane trees on the straight bounds of the hippodrome. 

 Cypress trees on the semicircular bounds of the hippo- 

 drome. 



The stibadium and other buildings ill the garden. 

 Box cut into names and other forms. 

 The pratulura, or little meadow in the garden. 

 The imitation of the natural face of some country in the 

 garden. 



The walk, covered with acanthus or moss. 



(14) 

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 (19) 

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21) 

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The meadows before the gestatio. 



T'he tops of the hills, covered with aged t rees. 



The underwood on the declivities of the liills. 



Vineyards below the underwood. 



Corn-fields. 



The river Tiber. 



The temple of Ceres, built by Must ius. 



The farmery. 



Vivarium, or park. 



Kitchen-garden. 



Orchard. 



Apiary. 



Cochlearium, or snailery. 

 Glirarium, or place for dormice. 

 Osier-ground. 

 Aqueduct. 



{Villat of the Ancienls, p. 3^1., and Plate Thuscum, 



43. That the style of Pliny's villas gave the tone to the European taste? in gardening up 

 to the end of the lYth century is sufficiently obvious. It is almost superfluous to remark, 



