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PARK AND CEMETERY 
OBELISK AVENUE. SCHCENBRUNN, VIENNA. BEECH TREES TRIMMED TO 
PRESENT A FLAT FRONT. EGERLV FOUNTAIN IN THE FOREGROUND. 
steps are flanked by thick stone walls about five feet 
high, with grooved tops through which rush streams 
of water to the various fountain basins. The slopes 
of the hill are covered with tall ferns that hang over 
the' walls, while feathery topped trees form a canopy 
overhead. This is Andalusia, as Oriental now as ever, 
and contrasting strangely with the northern province 
of Catalonia where Barcelona, the “Shrine of Cour- 
tesy,” borders her fair shores with stately palms and 
spreading plane trees. 
Nowhere in Europe is there a more attractive piece 
of modern decoration than the children’s fountain in 
the public park of this city. Happily placed against 
a mass of delicate foliage there is something so joyous 
about the whole composition that the visitor is lured 
to the spot again and again. 
A similarly delightful nook is to be found in the 
Thiergarten, Berlin. In a thicket of shrubs and flow- 
ers the marble Queen Louise seems to hold court and 
to shed purity and light upon the beholder who is thus 
forcibly reminded of the virtues of the woman so 
charmingly represented. Both of these statues are 
calculated to inspire pleasure in the beholder. Con- 
trary to these are the groups of animals at war with 
each other and which are so frequently found in the 
public gardens in France. 
The people of all countries have doubtless borrowed 
much of their taste in the placing of statuary out of 
doors from the Italians, this feature being character- 
istic of their work out of doors. One of the notable 
examples of clever use of this art is the cascade in the 
palace gardens of Caserta, near Naples. Here is an 
actual vista in cascades, interspersed with marbles, for 
nearly a mile. 
The Italians are fond of surprises in gardening, 
hence the small openings cut 
through massed foliage, that the 
visitor may come suddenly upon a 
glorious view of a valley or a build- 
ing. Again they induce him to 
thread an ilex or a cypress embow- 
ered walk to reach some fountain 
or modeled story at the end. The 
parapet bearing urns alternating 
with statuary is a distinctive feat- 
ure in decoration out of doors. 
These usually border the artificial 
lake or outline the Belvidere of the 
dwelling. 
While in Italy the marbles are 
grouped or scattered about the 
grounds of a residence, in Greece, 
statuary seems to be more closely 
allied to the architecture of the 
building ; thus the visitor to the 
former js more attracted to the landscape architecture, 
which often seems the central feature of an estate, 
while the reverse is true of Greece. 
The Greeks love copses of myrtle, thickets of mi- 
mosa and shrubs with aromatic bark. They hide their 
home gardens from the public by high walls. Thus, 
in strictest seclusion they may lean upon their broad 
window casements inhaling the fragrance of the pliil- 
lyrea, or plucking a pomegranate from a neighboring 
bough. Only the very well-to-do may possess a gar- 
den because of the sterility of the soil and lack of suf- 
ficient moisture ; thus the few existing are precious. 
The Royal Gardens at Athens, planned by Queen 
FOUNTAIN IN PARK, BARCELONA, SPAIN. 
