The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1898-02-09

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old places still in daily and familiar
use.
The Villa d'Este, with which this viii
la might be contrasted, equally beauti-
full in Its own way, has been suffered to
run wild-the trees and shrubs over
hang, and partially obstruct the paths,
| and the roses are lost in the high grass
1t is wonderfully lovely, but very mel
ancholy, and yet one would hardly wish
1t otherwise, illogically enough; but
logic is swept away in review of ones
impressions of these Old World gar
dens. Nevertheless, one is glad that
there is villa to be studied where he
may see what place properly taken
| care of may be.
| But my choice pitched upon the gar
den of the Lante rather than upon the
| one in Tivoli, because the latter. lying
upon an exceedingly steep hillside, has
less bearing than the other upon ordin-
airy problems of this kind. The slopes
upon which the formal garden of the
Villa Lante is built are much more
gentle and the supply of water feeding
the mountains Is much less generous.
The architect Of the Villa d'Este levied
upon one of the many torrents that
tear their way through the hills of
Tivoli. But at Bagnaia the clever way
in which stream but ten inches wide
and four deep, moving at a fairly rapid
rate, can be distributed and used for
it's utmost effort is very instructive. The
water is brought from the hills over a
| little viaduct and falls in cascade into
| the semi-circular recess between the
| two little summer houses on the up
permoSt level. 1t then rises into the
| fountain set within the high octagonal
Enclosure of clipped box. This fountain
is skilfully contrived with small basins
that serve as reservoirs to restore some
of the head From here it is led under
ground some feet and gushes out
again to race down a curious conduit
made to simulate strange kind of
crawfish, over a shell held between the
fore claws of the monster in another
waterfall to a semi circular basin
where two colossal water deities re-
cline. Formerly the basin rim and the
/ balustrades and staircase ramps at this
point had jets and spouts of water and
must have been most effective, but
these are now disused. The tops of the
balustrades are followed into conduits
and the pedestals into reservoirs for
the mouth on their fronts. On the level
of this basin IS another reservoir. some
ffty feet long. into which the water
rises again and gathers head for the
next fountain-a charming one. circu-
lar in plan. in two levels so that the
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