House & Garden 
There are peonies and 
columbines and fleur- 
de-lis, poppies, holly¬ 
hocks, marigolds, 
chrysanthemums, 
zinnias and dahlias, 
the tall-growing and 
low phloxes, pansies, 
petunias, geraniums 
and verbenas. Then 
there are such sweet¬ 
smelling flowers as 
violets and mignon¬ 
ette, jasmines and 
heliotrope, sweet peas 
(a tew only) and great 
clumps of lavender, 
clove pinks and gilly¬ 
flower and thyme. All 
theseflowersand more 
are in this sunlit gar¬ 
den. It is not a long 
list but quite enough 
to give a perpetual 
bloom ; and they are 
flowers, after all, that 
one most cares tor. 
Rarely have I seen flowers more effectively 
planted. In the small inner beds, always box- 
bordered, are the low growing flowers ; in the 
long beds that enclose these are the tall stan¬ 
dard roses and lilies and other tall-growing va¬ 
rieties ; and the yews rise as strong cones at i m- 
portant points to hold all together. Thus the 
garden stands a part in a well-ordered scheme. 
Lovers of flowers and trees, of sweet odors, 
of rippling and falling water, of balmy air and 
sunshine, will ever turn to it withjoy. Lovers 
of trim, well-kept and well-ordered gardens 
will revel in it. Students, searching for 
URNS OF THE BALUSTRADE 
that proper unity 
between Nature and 
Art, will find here an 
example than which 
no better exists, for 
Lante is an instance 
of how flowers and 
trees, garden walls, 
stairways and balus¬ 
trades and urns, 
fountains, still and 
running streams can 
be combined into one 
intricate yet simple 
scheme to produce 
a b e a u t i f u 1 unit. 
Nature happily leads 
the way to unity and 
dignity and order, to 
system and consis¬ 
tency. And they 
were wise in the ways 
of Nature, as in the 
ways of Art, those 
old garden builders 
and splendid artists, 
and they realized that 
they were not to try to imitate her, but to 
follow her in the way that she ever signifies, 
keeping in touch with her at the same time 
that they built tor their own comfort and 
use. So Lante was conceived and built, 
and it yet remains an exquisitely complete 
and unified work, to be classed among the 
most complete of Italy’s art treasures, to 
be thought ot, so far as its unity is con¬ 
cerned, with such finished gems as Gozzolio’s 
Chapel, the Borgia apartments or Galla 
Placido’s tomb. 
George IValter Dawson. 
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