IEuropean and Japanese Gardens 
Boboli at Florence, belonging to the Pitti Palace, and the 
Borghese att Rome. These were terraced to afford an arena 
and open-airr seating for athletic sports and mummeries in the 
olden time, ; and may not always have been covered with grass, 
but they arei very beautiful in their present condition of refresh¬ 
ing greenneess. 
IV. 
The gairden, thus treated, was, as I have said, designed 
under special conditions and for a particular purpose. It was 
‘where the grounds are sufficiently extensive 
The Boboli Gardenns 
intended hrrst as the decorative setting for the social as well as 
private life of a very rich, worldly and splendor-loving aris¬ 
tocracy ; seecondly, as an approach and environment for the 
palace, villaa or casino of the proprietor, with which it must form 
an artisticallly congruous whole. It is evident that there could 
be here no cquestion of rivalry with other kinds of gardens. The 
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