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Royal palaces & gardens (1916)

Nixon, Mima, illustrator, Calthrop, Dion Clayton, 1878-1937 · London: A. & C. Black, Ltd. · leaf 171

An illustration from Royal palaces & gardens, 1916, leaf 171
dily implanted in an oasis of green lawns,whose preciousness may only be esteemed fullyby those having a close and personal experienceof life in a dry and thirsty land where nowater is. Here are orange trees bearing at the sametime their double trophy of heavy perfumedblossom and those golden… … The Garden of the CrownPrinces Palace, Athens CROWN PRINCES PALACE, ATHENSas they bear there to-day, the name of the landof their first adoption : Portucalia. To be seen aright, or in other words, in itsentirety, this fair garden must be viewed fromthe roof of the palace. Here the four sides…

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