House Garden 
Immz 
IN THE ARCHBISHOP’S PALACE 
inches by twelve or eighteen, and are widely 
splayed inside. 1'he rough walls are built 
of a sort ot mud concrete, made by ramming 
certain stony soils, moistened by water, in a 
framework the required width of the walls. 
Where lime or gypsum can be obtained, it 
is preferred for finishing. A feature of the 
interior walls is the dado or wainscot. In 
the rooms this is hung with rush matting; 
in the court it is covered with tiles, colored 
in cool hues. Above the latter the walls are 
always white or cream colored, with slightly 
incised geometrical designs, much of which 
has, in recent times, been covered with white¬ 
wash by unappreciative servants. 
The advantages of the court are for all, 
but the garden is the possession of the 
wealthy. In the poorer houses, the “patio” 
is wholly paved with tiles, but the larger 
buildings have open spaces of soil filled with 
masses ot flowers, as our illustrations show. 
In the surrounding corridor are drinking 
founts set within the walls and richly orna¬ 
mented with the most decorative tiles. Rain 
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water is collected in tanks, not lor household 
purposes merely, but to provide a garden 
ornament. A small pipe supplies a jet in 
the center of the open space, and the water 
gurgles there, but a lew inches high, and 
marring not the stillness and repose of 
the court. 
Every Moor who can afford it has an 
outer garden in addition to the planted court 
we have been considering. Like the house, 
it shows a closed front to the street. It is 
always walled in and crowded with creepers 
and shrubs in which appear masses of such 
hardy flowers as geraniums, roses, jessamine, 
violets, lilies and pinks. The walks are all 
paved with tiles and covered with light 
trellises. With its accustomed modesty the 
water, here too, bubbles quietly into a low 
open tank sometimes containing fish. Cut 
flowers and potted plants are seldom seen 
in the houses ; and at the hands of the 
Moor the plant life, which is his solace, 
enjoys non-interference and a tranquillity 
all its own. 
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