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length libien oy the plans, lea of lence,
Rome Ss now it was were Pliny 1 the On rich and | his nin ape im- and 20.) ar~
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nclosure, and furnished with a fountain similar to that last described, fronted
house opening into a green er the above. Throughout the walks were scattered marble seats, near to each of which was a little fountain; 3
and throughout the whole small rills of water were artificially conducted among the walks, that served to
entertain the ear with their murmurs as well as to water the garden.(Historical View,&c. p. 53.; Pliny’s
Epistles, b. vy. letter 6. 5 Felibien, Plans et Descr.; Castell’s Villas of the Ancients.) 42. The details of the Tusculan Villa are thus given by Castell.(Fig. 3.)
4) The meadows before the gestatio.
5) The tops of the hills, covered with aged trees.
6)‘The underwood on the declivities of the hills.
7) Vineyards below the underwood.
$) Corn-fields.
(1) Villa, or house.{ 2) Gestatio, or place of exercise for chariots.( { 3) Ambulatio, or walk surrounding the terraces.( (4) The slope, with the forms of beasts cut in box.( (5) The xystus, or terrace, before the porticus, and on the(
sides of the house.( (6) The hippodrome, or plain so ca’(
the house.( (7) Plane trees on the straight bounds of the hippodrome.( (8) Cypress trees on the semicircular bounds of the hippo-
led, on the north side of
( 9) The stibadium and other buildings in the garden.( 10) Box cut into names and other forms.(26) Cochlearium, or snailery. 11) The pratulum, or little meadow in the garden.(27) Glirarium, or place for dormice. tis} Phe imitation of the natural face of some country in the( (
2 29) Aqueduct. (Villas of the Ancients, p. 34., and Plate Thuscunr.
_ garden. (13) The walk, covered with acanthus or moss.
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43. The stale Deen aaa 3 i é‘he: rn is style of Pliny’s villas gave the tone to the European taste in gardening up end of the 17th century is sufficiently obvious. It is almost superfluous to remark,