Leaves from a Madeira Garden 



often missed when looked at from below. 

 This garden has long been kept with intelligent 

 care at the very acme of cultivation, and it is 

 unrivalled in the richness of its colour, the 

 luxuriance of its creepers, and the profusion 

 of its flowering plants of every description. It 

 enjoys that pleasant element of surprise to 

 which the terraced formation especially lends 

 itself. You turn the angle of a wall and find 

 yourself in a Moorish garden of blue flowers, 

 with tiled walks and a tiled fountain in the 

 centre — suggesting memories of Granada ; you 

 descend a few steps from a croquet-lawn, and 

 enter a little pleasance with flagged paths and 

 box-edged beds, bright with flowers of 

 every hue, recalling with a difi^erence an old- 

 fashioned English garden of herbaceous flowers. 

 This Quinta, in this happy month of April, 

 presents a series of pictures not readily sur- 

 passed or forgotten. The Quinta do Til has 

 a charming formal garden, suggesting in its 

 structure, in the architecture of its buildings, 

 and in the pleasant plash of its fountains the 

 gardens of Italy. If one may make believe 

 that the sea is the Campagna, it is possible, 

 with no great stretch of the imagination, to 



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