A GARDEN IN VENICE 



conduits, generally invisible, give drink and life 

 to lovely gardens. 



There was one there, El Hacir del Gran 

 Capitan, a tiny house, the passage between it 

 and its kitchen roofed by a huge vine, and a 

 small garden of some seven terraces, each com- 

 posed of the sustaining wall of the one above it, 

 two narrow flower borders, a path between them, 

 and a fountain with an open conduit carrying 

 the water to the basin lower down. 



The garden itself, and then Granada below, 

 and then the Vega, as the plain is called, with 

 the Guadalquivir shimmering in silver bends 

 amongst green meadows, grey trees, and small 

 hills or hillocks, each giving standing-room to 

 the village and the church, and perhaps the con- 

 vent ; at the* end of all, rising in the intense blue 

 sky, the snows of the Sierra Nevada. That view 

 and the Museo del Prado pictures are the wonders 

 of old Spain. 



From the larger garden of the Generaliffe we 

 copied a tank for holding water, but this expensive 

 subject must be dealt with later. 



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