A GARDEN IN VENICE 



charming, and carries on our bloom with the help 

 of the iris, Canterbury bells, larkspurs, foxgloves, 

 &c, to the madonna lilies, whose flower-time 

 theirs overlaps. 



The idea taken from Hampton Court was not 

 successful. I remembered half a century ago 

 some beds there surrounded by a hedge of Devon- 

 iensis roses. With us, though offered many sites, 

 Devoniensis will not grow. For reasons of soil 

 and climate, given later, the refusals of certain 

 plants to be transplanted are with us much too 

 common. We console ourselves that, if their love 

 be not for me, some other love there'll surely be. 



The idea we borrowed from the Generaliffe 

 was the fashion of a tank. Few places are better 

 able to give advice on this crucial subject for a 

 garden than the Alhambra hill. Standing in a 

 torrid climate, and dry and springless in itself, 

 finishing off a promontory five hundred feet 

 above Granada, it would be barren but for the 

 engineering care and skill of the thirteenth 

 century Moors. As it is, their work is still in 

 being, and rills of sparkling water, brought in 

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