138 WALL AND WATER GARDENS 



enclosed spaces, is worthy of much further develop- 

 ment. It would combine equally well with upright 

 mortared walls of brick or stone, or with gently 

 sloping dry walls. How easily such a wall and water 

 garden could be made just below a pond-head, with 

 a fall of water dashing into a little rocky basin, then 

 passing under a bridge of one flat stone into a long- 

 shaped pool, with its narrow water-walk below and 

 its wider wall -walk on the higher level. What a 

 paradise for Ferns and Wall Pennywort and Mossy 

 Saxifrages would be the cool and rather damp rock- 

 walling under the head, this being on the western 

 or southern side, and what a pretty and interesting 

 place altogether ! 



Throughout the history of the world, as it is written 

 in the gardens that remain to us of old times, and 

 from these, through all chronicled ages down to 

 our own days, some kind of walled space of garden 

 ground, cooled and enlivened with running and falling 

 water, has always been made for human enjoyment 

 and repose. It may be said to have been, especially 

 in warmer climates than our own, one of the neces- 

 sities of refined civilisation. The old gardens of 

 Spain, in the ancient Moorish palaces of Granada 

 and Seville, are as complete to-day with their many 

 fountain jets and channels of running water as when 

 they were first built ; and though, as we see them 

 now, the original design of the planting, except per- 

 haps in the lines of giant Cypresses, is no doubt lost, 

 yet they still illustrate in their several ways that 



