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Italian gardens (1907)

Elgood, George Samuel, 1851- · London, New York, Bombay & Calcutta : Longmans, Green and Co. · leaf 84

An illustration from Italian gardens, 1907, leaf 84
arallel to those on the other side of the littlevalley ; probably they even joined hands across the vineyard, but onlytraces of them now exist. The casino is an unpretentious cream-coloured building, with greenpersiennes and low-tiled roof flanked by two dove-cotes. An interestingand unusual… … stone pines are planted in avenues or circles, but always in such a way asto add a picturesque touch to the surroundings. Some are perhaps as oldas the villa itself, and with their sombre, bushy heads add greatly to thebeauty of the garden. What a striking feature too are the hedges and alleys of…

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