THE ART OF GARDEN DESIGN IN ITALY 
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foreground to one of the finest views over Rome, with its endless variety of domes and 
towers. 
The upper level of the garden is divided into two parts by an alley ascending from the 
principal entrance in the Vico del Quirinale; one half consists of a ‘ bosco ’ of cypress, ilex and 
pine ; the other and larger half is laid out as 
an orange garden, with simple parterre of box 
and little intersecting walks meeting in a cir¬ 
cular grassplot and central basin. Orange- 
trees in massive earthenware vases accentuate 
the principal points of the design, and in 
the beds fruit-trees, irregularly planted, remove 
any feeling of stiffness there might other¬ 
wise have been. Along the western wall of 
this garden it is interesting to note the 
arrangement made for housing the orange- 
trees during the winter months. A series of 
permanent stone bases are fixed in the ground 
some ten feet apart and about twelve feet 
from the wall; these have square holes sunk, 
into which the wooden uprights are placed, 
and support a continuous beam upon which 
the rafters rest, a lean-to roof, with loose tiles, 
easily removed. Against the wall is a raised 
bed, its outer coping consisting of a stone irrigating channel, into which, at certain hours, 
the water is turned. This method of constructing temporary ‘ stanzoni ’ is frequently in use 
where no permanent ones exist, or, if existing, are of insufficient capacity for the enormous 
numbers of trees that many villas keep up. 
