Marie Luise Gothein

For we must bear in mind that the greater number of garden pictures known to us are taken from tombs.

Rhythm, symmetry, and a happy combination of elegance and utility - a blend often desired in later days of hope and struggle - these have been fully attained, and with them a delight in quiet communion with Nature, expressing as she does the sense of beauty in orderliness.

Right on to the New Period vineyard arbors were the centre and chief ornament of all gardens.