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Royal palaces & gardens (1916)

Nixon, Mima, illustrator, Calthrop, Dion Clayton, 1878-1937 · London: A. & C. Black, Ltd. · leaf 179

An illustration from Royal palaces & gardens, 1916, leaf 179
tle hillcalled Agia Kyriaki or St. Sunday, overlookingthe Ionian Straits. The garden is arranged interraces around the southern and eastern sides ofthe palace, and continues in a long strip downthe hillside to the sea. Twice a year, in the autumn and in the spring,a Herr Botaniker arrived froni… … The Rose Pergola, The Achilleion, Corfu ROSE PERGOLA, THE ACHILLEIONbuds to welcome the arrival of their imperialowner. For these few weeks only, the upperterraces were a blaze of colour, odd corners justoutside the garden walls blushed red withpoppies, and rows of flowering plants in potslined…

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