The Gardens illustrated are grouped by districts, beginning in the South with Rome, followed by the neighbourhood of the Eternal City--as Tivoli and Frascati, Bagnaia and Caprarola. Proceeding northwards the reader comes to Florence, famous for the Villas and Gardens in the neighbourhood of the City. Then follows Venetia, with the celebrated Malcontenta, Stra and Maser. The Lake District succeeds, with Balbianello and the Borromenian Islands; and finally the inexhaustible regions of Italian art at Genoa, renowned for superb examples of palatial architecture and gardening art. _A complete Catalogue of books in the “Country Life” Library will be sent post free on application to_ THE MANAGER, “COUNTRY LIFE,” LTD., 20, TAVISTOCK STREET, COVENT GARDEN, W.C. 2. TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES: Italicized text is surrounded by underscores: _italics_. Emboldened characters are surrounded by equals signs: =bold=. Superscripted text is preceded by a caret character: S^T or w^{ch}. Obvious typographical errors have been corrected. Inconsistencies in hyphenation have been standardized. Archaic or variant spelling has been retained. Emboldened page numbers in the Index indicate illustrations.