Italian Villas and Their Gardens

Italian Villas and Their GardensThough it is an exaggeration to say that there are no flowers in...
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Author: Wharton, Edith,1862-1937
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Italian Villas and Their Gardens

Italian Villas and Their Gardens

$9.99

Italian Villas and Their Gardens

$9.99
Author: Wharton, Edith,1862-1937
Format: eBook
Language: English

Italian Villas and Their Gardens

Though it is an exaggeration to say that there are no flowers in Italian gardens, yet to enjoy and appreciate the Italian garden-craft one must always bear in mind that it is independent of floriculture. The Italian garden does not exist for its flowers; its flowers exist for it: they are a late and infrequent adjunct to its beauties, a parenthetical grace counting only as one more touch in the general effect of enchantment. This is no doubt partly explained by the difficulty of cultivating any but spring flowers in so hot and dry a climate, and the result has been a wonderful development of the more permanent effects to be obtained from the three other factors in garden-compositionmarble, water and perennial verdureand the achievement, by their skilful blending, of a charm independent of the seasons. It is hard to explain to the modern garden-lover, 6whose whole conception of the charm of gardens is formed of successive pictures of flower-loveliness, how this effect of enchantment can be produced by anything so dull and monotonous as a mere combination of clipped green and stonework. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 53495
Author: Wharton, Edith
Release Date: Nov 10, 2016
Format: eBook
Language: English

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