138 Hints on Landscape Gardening 



the old moats into a lake and stream by a canal 

 leading from the river Neisse, the latter sur- 

 rounding three sides of the new castle and divid- 

 ing it from the older quarter and from the theater. 

 According to my plans, to which my talented 

 friend Schinkel has certainly given the most de- 

 lightful form, the old castle in future will be con- 

 nected with the new by a high arched bridge, the 

 theater on the other side by a gallery, crossing 

 the water in a higher arch, the whole improve- 

 ment making a worthier residence in a further 

 extension of more than five hundred paces. 



When we turn back for a moment to contem- 

 plate past centuries, we retrace the growing 

 development of industry and culture, which no 

 longer permitted the nobleman to be now a 

 pleasure-seeker and then, when the chance came, 

 a robber, but summoned him as well to engage 

 himself in industrial life. In consequence there 

 arose on the river buildings devoted to economic 

 purposes, — mills, breweries, distilleries, etc., — 

 which still show the old-fashioned, irregular style 

 with gables, projecting stories, and small win- 

 dows. Later the ground itself was explored, and 

 the alum works founded, which showed in the 

 architecture a less old-fashioned, more industrial 

 character. A vineyard closes the category of these 

 older ventures, whose product, however, is not to 

 be recommended. It seems either that our an- 

 cestors were satisfied with their poor wine, or that 

 the climate was warmer than at the present time, 

 for who would think at this date that the neigh- 



