Minor Features of Italian Gardens 
VILLA BORGHESE 
CIRCULAR SEATS 
tectural remains. This axis terminates on the 
distant hill in a feature flanked by two urns 
and guarded by two majestic sentinel Stone 
Pines. So that, standing in the hall of the 
habitation, one sees framed in the distant door 
the steps leading from the upper level to the 
lower garden, the fountain and basin and the 
fine old trees across the little valley. What¬ 
ever may have existed between the pines and 
the fountains has now entirely disappeared, 
but one feels sure that—farm land or terraced 
gardens—use must have been made of the 
stream that flows in the little valley midway 
between them. 
A FOUNTAIN VILLA BORGHESE 
still a feeling of completeness and unity not 
always found in the more splendid villas. The 
habitation is rectangular. It stands, on a lev¬ 
eled plain on the slope of a low hill. On each 
side are small plantations of trees; and to the 
left, as one looks from The Fountain , is the 
garden. It is a square plot, open to the hab¬ 
itation, sheltered from the road by a high 
wall and on the other two sides by low ones, 
making it possible to see out over the valley 
to the low hills near at hand. A hall trav¬ 
erses the building from front to back ; and on 
its central line, extended through the grounds 
as an axis, one finds several interesting archi¬ 
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