NOTES ON DECOKATIVE GARDENING. 
Paul v., the founder of the Borghesi family, who i-epaii'ed one of the ancient aqueducts, and so united 
a magnificent stream of water once more to Rome, after centuries of severation, in consequence of 
ruinous portions of the aqueduct allow- 
ing the stream to waste itself uselessly on 
the Campagna. To usher this restored sup- 
ply of the precious element into the " Eter- 
nal City" with due " pomp and cii'cum- 
stance," a magnificent architeclui'al com- 
position was erected on the slope of the 
Janiculan hill, between the columns of 
which three grandly designed apertures 
appear, from which thi'ee torrents — for no 
other term will sufficiently express the 
bulk of water — fall with a deafening 
sound, amid a cloud of spray, into three 
gigantic tazze, from which conduits carry 
the water to supply many of the greater^ 
and an endless num- 
ber of thelesserfoun- 
tains of Eome, 
The fountains on 
the Piazza San' Pie- 
tro are, perhaps, the 
finest detached spe- 
_„- j-_ii_-, _— ^ ciniens of purely de- 
— ==s~^_.=;^2==#'-^==i-^~"-^— -^ corative fountains in 
No. 2.~THE FouNTAij. OF ST. peteh's. Bxistenoe. Thcy are 
the work of Carlo Maderno ; and such is the magnificent character of this simple design — the 
quantity of water thrown up, and falling in clouds of spray, in which, at a certain hour, one 
or more rainbows are distinctly seen — that, even immediately in front of St. Peter's, one of the 
largest and most imposing buildings 
in the world, their effect, so far from 
being insignificant, is most grand 
and imposing. These, with the great 
fountain of Trevi, have afforded Ma- 
dame de Stael subject for some of her 
most eloquent, descriptive passages 
in her admirable novel, " Corinne, ou 
I'ltalie." 
No. 2 is a small, and, of course, 
inadequate, representation of one of 
the fountains of St. Peter's ; No. 3, that 
of the Palazzo Fornesi ; and No. 4, 
another grand and simple example of 
the fountains of Rome — that of the 
Court of the Belvidere. 
In these fountains the abimdance 
of water always forms the grandest 
featm'e — a mere squirt is but a cari- 
cature in comparison ; for, to cite a 
passage recently quoted by Emerson 
in bis Pejiresentative Men, " A single 
di'op of sea-water possesses all the 
chemical properties of the great ocean 
of which it is a part, but it is inca- 
pable of representing the phenome- 
non of a storm." 
Thus we see that magnitude must inevitably form a great element in the sublime, and that dimen- 
NO, 3. — FOUNTAIN OF THE PALAZZO FORNESI. 
