THE GARDEXS OF ITALY. 
Nothing cim be more 
attractive or more deftly 
planned than the garden 
which surrounds the 
formal and well kept 
centre, with its artistic 
fountain and parterres 
gay with flowers. We 
can picture vividly the 
joyous gatherings here in 
bygone days — the songs, 
the gaiety, the artificial 
manners, the real enjoy- 
ment, of all that light- 
hearted, frivolous Court 
life which grew up in 
Italy in the seventeenth, 
and lasted up to the nine- 
teenth, century. This 
pleasaunce is the cul- 
minating point of the 
garden proper, and, above 
and beyond, it merges 
into deep ilex woods, with 
269 — DETAIL OF THE HE.VD OF THE CASCADE, VILLA LANTE. 
