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ON GARDENS
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Adjoining to this (St. Maria in Navicula) are the
Horti Mathsei, which only of all the places about the
Citty I omitted visiting, tho’ I was told inferiour to no
garden in Rome for statues, ancient monuments, aviaries,
fountaines, groves, and especialy a noble obelisq, and
maintain’d in beauty at the expense of 6000 crownes
yearely, which if not expended to keepe up its beauty
forfeits the possession of a greater revenue to another
family ; so curious are they in their villas and places of
pleasure, even to excesse.
The gardens of Justinian, which we next visited,
are very full of statues and antiquities, especialy urnes,
amongst which is that of Min. Felix; a Terminus
that formerly stood in the Appian Way, and a huge
colosse of the Emperor Justinian. There is a delicate
aviarie on the hill; the whole gardens furnish’d with
rare collections, fresh, shady, and adorn’d with noble
fountaines.
After dinner we went again to see the Villa Bor-
ghesi, about a mile without the Cittie ; the garden is
rather a park or paradise, contriv’d and planted with
walkes and shades of myrtils, cypresse and other trees
229
Adjoining to this (St. Maria in Navicula) are the
Horti Mathsei, which only of all the places about the
Citty I omitted visiting, tho’ I was told inferiour to no
garden in Rome for statues, ancient monuments, aviaries,
fountaines, groves, and especialy a noble obelisq, and
maintain’d in beauty at the expense of 6000 crownes
yearely, which if not expended to keepe up its beauty
forfeits the possession of a greater revenue to another
family ; so curious are they in their villas and places of
pleasure, even to excesse.
The gardens of Justinian, which we next visited,
are very full of statues and antiquities, especialy urnes,
amongst which is that of Min. Felix; a Terminus
that formerly stood in the Appian Way, and a huge
colosse of the Emperor Justinian. There is a delicate
aviarie on the hill; the whole gardens furnish’d with
rare collections, fresh, shady, and adorn’d with noble
fountaines.
After dinner we went again to see the Villa Bor-
ghesi, about a mile without the Cittie ; the garden is
rather a park or paradise, contriv’d and planted with
walkes and shades of myrtils, cypresse and other trees