PARK AND CEMETERY 
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A SECTION OF THE CASCADES IN GARDENS OF THE ROYAL PALACE, 
CASERTA, ITALY. 
Amalie on waste land, are irrigated to some extent by 
an ancient channel and are maintained at great expense 
and labor. The huge palms are a delightful foil to the 
Ionic colonnade of the palace and when the nightin- 
gales are singing in the oleanders and the scent of 
blue and white violets fills the air, the king, who is 
a great lover of Nature, forgets his cares. 
However, nowhere in Europe is this same dame 
Nature quite so opulent in her gifts as in England 
and Ireland, for there the humidity of the atmosphere 
promotes growth until nearly every inch of ground 
is mantled. In some sections 
of Ireland the limestone rocks 
yield sufficient nourishment 
for huge trees and it is a com- 
mon sight to see vines which 
completely cover extensive 
walls, severed completely from 
the ground roots, their leafage 
depending entirely upon the 
tiny claws buried in the cracks 
of the walls. 
There are no more beauti- 
ful garden spots to he found 
than within the demesne of 
Kenmare, Ireland. These are 
in part primeval woods, and 
the delightful confusion of 
growths is indescribable. One 
may discover the sunniest of 
glades linked to woods of 
Druidical gloom, picturesque 
bridges and waters bordered with 
huge clumps of rhododendrons, holly 
and arbutus interspersed with giant 
ash trees. The quaint bridges, half 
hidden in verdure, enhance the pic- 
tures to he found in every bend of 
the streams that lace together like 
ribbons of silver the lands of this 
greenest of isles. 
Though the wildwood is by no 
means lacking in England, the 
larger part of her area is cultivated 
to the last degree. She has given 
us the most restful stretches of 
green lawn, and the most pic- 
turesque effects where buildings and 
trees are joined to form a home 
picture. She has taught the land- 
scape architect of the present day 
to build vine covered pergolas and 
rose arbors, to cover boulders with 
lichens and coax the foxglove to 
grow in crannied walls, and best of 
all she has taught the relation of open spaces to the 
buildings and planting. For let it be known emphati- 
cally, that the open spaces in a plantation bear the same 
relation to the trees and shrubs as a rest does to the 
notes in a bar of music. 
We may study trees overhanging garden walls at 
Haddon — and then we may drive on a few miles to 
the quaint little ‘‘Peacock Inn” to see a real old En- 
glish home garden with huge crimson dahlias flaunt- 
ing their ruffles along the paths, to admire the glossy 
leaves of the ivy, that ‘‘plant of Osiris,” which covers 
ILEX WALK, BOBOLI GARDENS, FLORENCE, ITALY. LAID OUT IN 1630 BY 
TRIBOLO. 
