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GARDEN CRAFT IN EUROPE 



channels of inverted green tiles let into the rough masonry of the balus- 

 trade walls. 



After the Alhambra the most beautiful and best preserved Moorish 

 palace is the Alcazar at Seville, constructed and decorated in the same style 

 as the Alhambra, but on a smaller scale. The lovely cinquecento gardens 

 which Charles V, with a genuine love for gardening, remodelled from the 



HEAD OF THE WATER GARDEN AT THE GENERALIFE. 



older Moorish gardens, are among the most curious and interesting in Spain, 

 and although they have neither the marvellous situation nor the profusion 

 of water that form the great dehght of the Generalife they possess a 

 charm produced by the elegance of the architecture and the wonderful 

 richness of the vegetation. 



