It is a region of dead walls, over which bend the acacias and elms, over which shoot up the cypresses and cedars of innumerable convent and palace-gardens, on whose flower-beds and fountains and quincunxes the first-floor windows look down.
"The Countess of Albany"
Violet Paget (AKA Vernon Lee)
The path that led to it ran through fields planted with small fir-trees arranged in quincunxes.
"The Secret of Sarek"
Maurice Leblanc