ROMAN VILLAS 
in g from the upper garden, there is an elaborate chateau 
d'eau of baroque design, with mossy urns and sea-gods, 
terminating in a basin fringed with ferns ; and beneath 
this central composition the garden ends in a third wide 
terrace, planted with square-clipped ilexes, which look 
from above like a level floor of verdure. Graceful stone 
bridges connect this lowest terrace with the first-floor 
windows of the palace, which is divided from its garden 
by a narrow street ; and the whole plan is an interesting 
example of the beauty and variety of effect which may 
be produced on a small steep piece of ground. 
Of the other numerous gardens which once crowned 
the hills of Rome, but few fragments remain. The Villa 
Celimontana, or Mattei, on the Caelian, still exists, but 
its grounds have been so Anglicized that it is interesting 
chiefly from its site and from its associations with 
St. Philip Neri, whose seat beneath the giant ilexes is 
still preserved. The magnificent Villa Ludovisi has 
vanished, leaving only, amid a network of new streets, 
the Casino of the Aurora and a few beautiful fragments 
of architecture incorporated in the courtyard of the ugly 
Palazzo Margherita ; and the equally famous Villa 
Negroni was swept away to make room for the Piazza 
delle Terme and the Grand Hotel. The Villa Sacchetti, 
on the slope of Monte Mario, is in ruins ; in ruins the 
old hunting-lodge of Cecchignola, in the Campagna, on 
the way to the Divino Amore. These and many others 
are gone or going ; but at every turn the watchful eye 
