26 OLD-FASHIONED GARDENING 
gardeners wanted old Spain and all that was of old 
Spain, here in New Spain; their hearts turned to the 
old world for trees and flowers and fruits, regardless 
of the generosity of Nature in the new. “All the 
fruit trees (an indifferent sort of plum and a small 
black cherry excepted)” wrote Stork, “have been im¬ 
ported from Europe and thrive exceedingly well. 
. . . The lemons, limes, citrons, pomegranates, 
figs, apricots, peach, etc., grow here in high perfec¬ 
tion.” 
It has been and will be, forever the same. When 
the Moors came into Spain they brought with them all 
that they were able to bring, transforming the land of 
the conquered with their arts and architecture. And 
remote though they seem to us, their touch is felt here 
on our shores, through all these centuries, in both the 
dwellings and the gardens which the Spaniards made 
for themselves. One plant particularly, which we 
have curiously enough associated almost if not quite 
exclusively with the Puritans, is used by the Moors; 
and is nowhere lovelier than in the gardens of Spain. 
This is boxwood; its use in Spanish gardens indicates 
plainly that the design of the parterre immediately ad¬ 
joining the Governor’s house, which Stork has repro¬ 
duced so faithfully, is not too fanciful to admit it here. 
For it is planted in the most splendid and intricate 
forms of heraldry in Spain; and here is a design which 
