A Letter to Pliny Relating to the Villa Castello 
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the reservoir at the upper end of the garden 
and look back over and through the trees 
to the irregular lines of the house, and over 
it to the sea and Vesuvius beyond. 
The broad path on which you started to 
go up the garden leads to a court surrounded 
by curving seats, from which point begins 
the pergola—a great feature of all Capri 
gardens. Along the sides, low down, grow 
wall-flowers, ivy geraniums, nasturtiums and 
other low-growing flowers, and, higher up, 
between the columns, solid masses of many 
varieties of roses. Overhead, the ten foot 
width is spanned by the branches of the 
grape vines, and in the summer there is a 
dense roof of green, from which hang, as the 
time of vintage approaches, the bunches of 
many kinds of grapes. On both sides, we 
can see between the roses rather formal 
flower-beds where grow the big pink mallows, 
Canterbury bells, snapdragons, geraniums, 
the delicate flax, the tall poppies, and such 
other flowers as may happen to be planted. 
The climate, being rarely colder than forty 
degrees or warmer than eighty, permits 
THE EAST END OF THE PERGOLA 
Aldllo'ivs and Canterbury Bells 
VILLA CASTELLO 
