Museum of antiquity : a description of ancient life : the employments, amusements, customs and habits, the cities, palaces, monuments and tombs, the literature and fine arts of 3,000 years ago (1882)
Yaggy, L. W, Haines, T. L · New York : Standard Pub. House · leaf 83
house itself. The garden to thesouth is still, to the best of our information, uncleared, nor is itlikely that it contains objects of sufficient interest to recompensethe labor which would be consumed in laying it open. Ourlimited knowleds^e of ancient horticulture is not therefore likely 72 JEWELS… … HOUSEHOLD UTEKSILS. We will do our best, however, to complete the readersnotion of an Italian \illa, and show^ what might have been, sincewe can not show what has been here, by borrowing Plinys ac-count of the garden attached to his Tuscan villa, the only accountof a Roman irarden which has come…
Civilization, Ancient · Classical antiquities
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