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Italian gardens (1907)

Elgood, George Samuel, 1851- · London, New York, Bombay & Calcutta : Longmans, Green and Co. · leaf 54

An illustration from Italian gardens, 1907, leaf 54
certainly adds greatly tothe beauty and interest of the garden, and, though not on a grandscale like those at Frascati, for the situation would not permit of it,it possesses a peculiar charm of its own. Starting from the fountainniche above, the water falls into a succession of shallow… … air with coolness and moisture. Much of the architectural detail islost beneath a veil of rich green moss and water-growth, but all is sodelicious in colour, that we could not wish it to be other than it is. One of the pictures shows the point at which the cascade isinterrupted, midway in the…

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