404 THE PRAISE OF GARDENS 



Sans-Souci at Potsdam, in the mixed style of Switzer, chiefly 

 designed by Manger, a German architect, and Salzmann, the Royal 

 Gardener, (see History of the Gardens, published by Nicolai) : 

 and the Gardens at Magdeburg, laid out by Linne, landscape 

 gardener, in 1824. Hamburg has always been a garden-city and 

 maintained its reputation in this respect by the great ' Garten- 

 Ausstelluhg' held there in 1897. 1 



The earliest Spanish gardens are the creation of the Moors, and 

 bear the Arabian stamp of their origin, half Asiatic, half African. 

 Perhaps their design has the strongest affinity to the gardens of 

 Persia, with their shallow waters running down the centre over 

 coloured tiles, and their innumerable fountains, for water in one 

 form or another is the predominant feature. 



The oldest garden is at Seville, the Alcazar, the Moorish word 

 for ' Royal Palace.' These gardens were laid out by Charles V., in 

 the sixteenth century, upon old lines, the compartments being 

 arranged in patterns of Eagles and his coat of arms: the levels 

 vary and the plots are divided by orange-clad walls. 



The Generalife at Granada (' Jenatu-L'arif,' meaning the 

 Garden of the Architect, who sold the site to the Sultan in 

 1320), has been called 'A Villa of Waters.' The canal of the 

 Darro flows under evergreen arches, (the subject of one of 

 Lord Leighton's early pictures,) an open colonnade overlooks 



1 For other references to German Gardens, may be consulted : 



Laurenb^rgi (Petri), Horticulture, Lib II. Plans of gardens by Merian. 

 Frankfort, 1631. 



Sal. Kleiner, Yera et accurata clelineatio omnium Templorum . . in urbe 

 Vienna?, 1724-1737. 



Sal. Kleiner, Maisons de Plaisance Imperiales, 33 plates. 



Nuremberg Hesperides, by J. C. Yolckamer, 1700, folio. 



' Die Garten Kunst,' von J. F. Bloss, 28 copper plates and plans drawn 

 by Siegel, and described by Dr. Ch. Stieglitz, 3 vols. 8vo. Leipzig, 1798. 



J. C. Krafft, Plans des plus beaux Jardins Pittoresques de France, d'Angle- 

 terre et d'Allemagne, 2 vols. oblong folio, 192 plates. Paris, 1809-10. 



Dr W. Beattie, 'Journal of a residence in Germany,' 1830. 



Also the numerous ' Garten-Kalendar.' 



