A GARDEN NOTE-BOOK 



book of Spanish gardens, and passed that word to 

 me. The title of this precious portfoUo, reproduc- 

 tions of a painter's work, is " Jardines de Espafia," 

 by Santiago Rusinol. The book is published in 

 Madrid by the Sociedad Anonimo, San Marcos 42, 

 and sold in the same city by Don Fernando Fe, 

 Libreria, Puerto del Sol, 15. Some forty plates, 

 loose-leaved, are found within stifiF paper covers of 

 Spanish yellow tied with yellow ribbons, and these 

 pictures are prefaced not only by a few pages from 

 the artist himself but by several poems in praise 

 of the gardens of Spain and of their interpretation 

 here by a painter with rare poetic feeling. By no 

 other way could one approach these gardens shown 

 by Rusinol than by the way of poetry, fit ante- 

 chamber to the collection within where, in sun 

 and in shadow, poetry itself is felt. 



To choose from among these pictures a few for 

 comment has been difficult; but certain ones shall 

 be touched upon in an attempt to give some idea 

 of the type of garden of a country whose private 

 pleasaunces are doubtless much better known to 

 horticulture and to art than they are to me. 



Taking now almost at random a dozen of these 

 pictures, it is not strange that in nine out of the 

 twelve one sees water; fountains in eight, a deep 



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