SPANISH GARDENS 



pool in the nintli. The general aridity of Spain, 

 its burning sun, and that knowledge from Moorish 

 times of the beautiful use of water, suggest them- 

 selves by the cool streams of fountains in these 

 gardens. The glorieta, a green pavilion or arbor 

 formed of cypress-trees, trained and clipped to 

 simulate the Gothic, is the other striking feature 

 of these Spanish plates. This has a strange beauty 

 — its sloping arches, its finials even, cut in dark- 

 green foliage; and, as the trees seem to be very 

 slender in themselves, the effect is light and grace- 

 ful, except where the cypress is set more closely 

 together and allowed, as in the picture "Camino de 

 Rosales" (Aranjuez), to form a thick and matted 

 bower. Here the glorieta forms a central feature 

 for a great garden on level land, backed by moun- 

 tains; the solidity of the glorieta's green walls is 

 relieved by a series of detached arches of cypress, 

 forming entrances to narrow-hedged and flower- 

 bordered walks, which radiate in six or eight direc- 

 tions outward from the green pavilion. "Nido de 

 Cipreses," evidently a painting in detail of the 

 first-named subject, shows this designing with 

 beautiful clearness. In the plate "Camino de 

 Alfabia" (Mallorca), a noble pergola is seen; col- 

 umns rising from a low wall, light arches above; an 



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