He is to bring trees and shrubs and flowers and stone-work, and everything that can be required; and you shall superintend the finishing, if not the doing, of it yourself.

We have such a fine head of water here, and the climate is, they tell me, usually so lovely that we can do anything in the gardening way.

If it should ever turn out that the climate does not suit, we shall put a great high glass roof over it, and _make_ a suitable climate.
This garden in front of my room is the old Italian garden.

It must have been done with extraordinary taste and care, for there is not a bit of it which is not rarely beautiful.

Sir Thomas Browne himself, for all his _Quincunx_, would have been delighted with it, and have found material for another "Garden of Cyrus." It is so big that there are endless "episodes" of garden beauty I think all Italy must have been ransacked in old times for garden stone-work of exceptional beauty; and these treasures have been put together by some master-hand.