Museum of antiquity; a description of ancient life: the employments, amusements, customs and habits, the cities, places, monuments and tombs, the literature and fine arts of 3,000 years ago (1882)
Yaggy, Levi W · Chicago, Western Publishing House; New York, Standard Publishing House; [etc.,etc.] · leaf 79
ouse itself. The garden to tliesouth 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 knowledge of ancient horticulture is not therefore likely 72 JEWELS… … HOUSEHOLD UTENSILS. We will do our best, however, to complete the readersnotion of an Italian villa, 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 garden which has come down…
Haines, Thomas L · Civilization · Classical antiquities
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