House and Garden 
Cruel forms the eastern 
boundary of the gar¬ 
dens, dividing them 
from the rambling old 
orchards also belong¬ 
ing to the Alcazar. 
This wall, exceedingly 
ornate, is shown again 
in several other illus¬ 
trations. 1'he one on 
page 8 is from a pho¬ 
tograph taken from 
the angle where this 
gallery meets the Alca¬ 
zar facade and looks 
across the gardens 
toward the south. 
The long, two-storied 
Fabrica de Tabacos is 
seen beyond the en¬ 
closure. 
Within these bound¬ 
aries, the gardens are 
marked off into 
squares, refreshed by 
fountains and parted 
from one another by 
walls of mixed brick 
and porcelain or by 
myrtle hedges. Walks 
of gay Moorish tiles, 
in patterns of stars, 
crescents and circles, 
bordered by box and 
shaded by mighty 
magnolias, lead to bath, 
grotto, labyrinth, ar¬ 
bor, pavilion. This 
checkered arrangement 
gives way, at the south¬ 
ern end, to an orange- 
grove interspersed with lemon-trees, whose 
paler fruit enhances the Hesperidean gold. 
1 he gardens, in their present aspect, were 
laid out by Charles V., who had the boxwood 
borders cut into the forms of his heraldic bear¬ 
ings, and the flower-plots so planted as to 
represent crowns, lions and eagles, but recent 
gardeners have not been careful to keep these 
features well distinguished. 1'he flowers, 
especially, have been suffered to grow in such 
luxuriant confusion that the intricate designs 
of the beds are lost in a wilderness of beauty. 
FAMINES HEL ALEAZAH 
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A 
PLAN OF THE GARDENS OF THE ALCAZAR 
Especially measured and drawn for u House and Garden ” by Augusto Perez Giralde and the only accurate 
survey of the grounds in existence 
D, D—The Gallery of Pedro the 
Cruel 
E—The Orchards 
F—Garden-house 
A—Entrance 
B—The Palace overlookingthe parterre 
of Maria de Padilla 
C—Apartments of Maria de Padilla 
G—Pool 
H — Bath of Joanna the Mad 
I—The Pavilion of Charles V. 
J, J—The Labyrinth of Charles V. 
In thirsty Spain, the first essential of a gar¬ 
den is water. One of the popular Andalu¬ 
sian coplas runs : 
“ Garden without water, 
House without a roof, 
Wife whose talk is all 
Scolding and reproof. 
Husband who forgets his home 
In the tavern-revel— 
Here are four things 
Ready for the Devil.” 
Of horticultural interest, too, is Saint 
Teresa’s mvstical parable of prayer : “A man 
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