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THE ART OF GARDEN DESIGN IN ITALY 
the House of the Medusa and the Casa Grande, Pompeii, are very perfect specimens. 1 In the latter 
examples the design is most effectively carried out in mosaic and shellwork combined. 
In many of the wall-paintings, both at Herculaneum and Pompeii, varieties of ephemeral 
structures are represented—fountains, nymphaea, shrines, temples, aviaries, and summer-houses,- 
POMPEIAN CARDEN FRESCO 
generally of wood ; enclosures of treillage, with angle-posts carved and decorated. In the peristyle 
of the garden of Sallust is an excellent representation. The house of Pansa at Pompeii occupies 
a complete ‘ insula ’ or block, and here, besides an atrium and large peristyle, there was a xystus or 
garden occupying the entire width of the block. It was overlooked on the side of the house by an 
TREILLAGE DESICN in ANCIENT. GARDEN , From. a /m™ at POMPEII 
open portico, and above this formed a long balcony surveying the garden. Sometimes, where there 
was no second story, a terrace garden was established, with masonry piers supporting massive 
timbers, beams, and vine-clad pergolas, with flowers and shrubs in boxes; the walls of such a 
terrace would be hollowed out on the top and the space planted with trailing flowers similar to the 
1 See Lewis Griiner, Specimens of Ornamental Art, 1853, where a reproduction of this fountain is given in colour. 
