. European and Japanese gardens; papers read before the American Institute of Architects .. . sed,and it has been only with the utmost dii^culty that some of thesevast and wealth-consuming estates have since been maintainedin even tolerably perfect condition. Not a few have run todecay, and are to-day endowed with the new and melancholycharm of ruin. Nature has reconquered the domain whereshe was held captive to mans caprice, and vines, trees, shrubs,grass and dust have done their best to obliterate the work ofhuman hands. Other gardens have been sold under the ham-mer or cut up into building
. European and Japanese gardens; papers read before the American Institute of Architects .. . sed,and it has been only with the utmost dii^culty that some of thesevast and wealth-consuming estates have since been maintainedin even tolerably perfect condition. Not a few have run todecay, and are to-day endowed with the new and melancholycharm of ruin. Nature has reconquered the domain whereshe was held captive to mans caprice, and vines, trees, shrubs,grass and dust have done their best to obliterate the work ofhuman hands. Other gardens have been sold under the ham-mer or cut up into building lots, and there is no likelihood thatmany new ones will arise in their places, for Italy is poor, andthere is no such concentration of wealth in strong families asto make probable the creation of new splendors of the that remain are, therefore, doubly precious ; they areuni(|ue, for no modern imitation can reproduce their antiquecharm ; and nowhere else in the world is there the environ-ment of atmosphere, associations and art which envelops these European and Japanese Garde NS. The Italian Formal Garden
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