The Gardens of the Villa Lante 
is occupied by two little garden pavilions, 
and between them is a cascade which supplies 
water for the many fountains. 
These are in general the features of this 
small villa. They are not many, but they 
are simple and all beautifully wrought into 
a whole in which not only is the scale of 
stairs and walls, of buildings and fountains, 
of balustrades and urns well conceived, but 
the scale of the plants and flowers and trees 
also, d rees balance columns, clipped yews 
and lemon trees balance urns and sculpture, 
box alleys are of calculated height and rela¬ 
tion to the basins and walls. Flowers balance 
flowers, tall ones are never planted where 
low ones should be, and a low group never 
occupies the place of a group that should 
afford an emphasis in the design. Good taste 
has become a tradition ; and having been 
established, seems never to have gone astray. 
Not even in the more formal portion of 
the garden, the hardest place of all to attain 
harmony and accord is there anything that is 
seriously a false note. The planning and 
the planting aid each other. And this part 
is so very beautiful that it is worth while to 
THE WALK BESIDE THE ENTRANCE WALL 
A WALK BETWEEN THE FLOWER BEDS 
VILLA LANTE 
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