The Italian Formal Garden 
toward different results. As an abstract and acadfemic ques¬ 
tion, controversy as to their relative merits is witlhiout signifi¬ 
cance or reason. Such discussion has its place (only where 
spaccific prob- 
lemiss are pre¬ 
sen teed for solu¬ 
tion.. It is, of 
couirse, open 
to (question, 
whetther, upon 
the site and 
witlhiin the lim¬ 
its cof Mr. A.’s 
prcqperty, or 
witlhi the sum 
whiicch Mr. B. 
puit5s at the 
landlscape gar- 
demeer’s dispo¬ 
sal, or in the 
clirmate and 
witlhi the partic¬ 
ular surround¬ 
ing's; of Mr. C.’s 
estaitte, a formal 
or la pictur¬ 
es q 1 u e treat- 
memt will be 
besit.. I hold no 
brieff for the Ital¬ 
ian fformal gar- 
deni as against 
the park and 
wild -wood. I 
have simply 
PLAN OF THE VILLA MEDICI GARDENS . . 1 
Rome trie;d to set 
forthi the con¬ 
ditions under which it came into being, the artistic: principles 
which controlled its design, and some of the mieethods and 
devices which produced the results attained. Soime of the 
errors and defects of these methods I have suggestted ; others 
are patent to every observer. 
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