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THE GARDENS OF ITALY. 
should be devoted to it, omitting, of course, “ the base and mechanical part ” of mere 
building as beneath a gentleman’s notice. The course of English house-building throughout 
the eighteenth century reflects this order of ideas. We see 
Italians like Leoni and Borra brought over to guide milord 
in reconstructing his ancestral seat. Among the crowd of 
dilettante 
travellers, 
came, in 1755, 
a young, ener- 
getic and ver- 
satile Scotch 
architect, who 
was destined 
to modify pro- 
foundly the 
current of 
Palladian wor- 
ship. Robert 
.Adam thought 
for himself, 
and by native 
genius estab- 
lished a fresh 
tradition in 
architecture. 
On gardening, 
however, he 
never seems 
to have really 
concentrated 
his mind. 
Vaguely in- 
fluenced by the coming naturalistic school, he drew land- 
scapes in a romantic, Gainsborough-like fashion, and never 
seems to have fully reasoned out the relation of house 
and garden. Valleys and hills too often suggest to him 
only vague dreams of castle-building, of ruinous walls and bridges and of great circular 
dungeon towers shadowed by piers and arches and perched on craggy cliffs. None 
19. — DETAIL OF CENTRE BAY OF GARDEN FRONT. 
The sunblind is a Utter insertion. 
18. — THE WATER TOWER AT 
THE VILLA ATTREE, BRIGHTON. 
VILLA ATTREt QUtEM5 RAHA BHICHTUM 
5IH CHARLtB UAHKT ARCMiTttT IBjg 
PLAM OF PRlNCIPAL FLOOft 
0 
> 4 ' 
20 . — SITE AND GARDEN PLANS. 
