I love this publication. It's a reissue of the 1904 Edition of Italian Villas and Their Gardens by Edith Wharton with pictures by Maxfield Parrish.

Early on Wharton writes: The traveller returning from Italy, with his eyes and imagination full of the ineffable Italian garden-magic, knows vaguely that the enchantment exists; that he has been under its spell, and that it is more potent, more enduring, more intoxicating to every sense than the most elaborate and lowing effects of modern horticulture; but he may not have found the key to the mystery.