. European and Japanese gardens; papers read before the American Institute of Architects .. . THE BASIN OF CERES VERSAILLES in the early centuries of the Christian Era, Gaul drew her in-spiration from Rome, so later through the ages, France, whilealways coloring with her own character what she appropriatedfrom her instructress, sat at the feet of Italy. This is true in ameasure of all the arts,—but most distinctly so in would even be difficult in many instances to distinguish thedesign of a French garden of the middle ages from an Italianexample of a similar period. And this for a
. European and Japanese gardens; papers read before the American Institute of Architects .. . THE BASIN OF CERES VERSAILLES in the early centuries of the Christian Era, Gaul drew her in-spiration from Rome, so later through the ages, France, whilealways coloring with her own character what she appropriatedfrom her instructress, sat at the feet of Italy. This is true in ameasure of all the arts,—but most distinctly so in would even be difficult in many instances to distinguish thedesign of a French garden of the middle ages from an Italianexample of a similar period. And this for a twofold reason :— French Gardening and Its Master. GROVE OF THE COLONNADE VERSAILLES first, the French civilization followed in the wake of the Italian,and second, the art of gardening was at that time little devel-oped, compared with what it afterward became, and was, in
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