176 Hints on Landscape Gardening 



out this convenience the completion would per- I 

 haps have been too expensive for my income. 1 

 The greater part of this plan just described is 

 planted with fruit trees only, an idea w^hich I 

 have borrowed from Chief Gardener Lenne, the 

 carrying-out of which certainly gives very fine 

 results when the place selected is suitable. Here 

 between village and town, and extending between 

 the gardens of both, visible in the far distance 

 from the valley, there was no course more prac- 

 tical than further to cover with masses of fruit 

 trees the mountain which was already terraced 

 and skirted with fruit trees, so that in summer 

 the bright green of line grass might be seen shim- 

 mering under the tree-stems. But since the shape 

 of most fruit trees is poor and ugly, I have tried 

 to amend this by the mixture of the beautiful 

 wild apple tree. 



From the fruit plantation we arrive, close be- 

 hind the village, at the upper edge of a narrow 

 valley, whose steep sides are lined with old 

 beeches, and w^here here and there the headings 

 and shafts of the alum works are visible. The 

 road then turns again toward the plain of the 

 mountain projection and skirts a little wooded 

 lake near the village, until, in a quarter of an 

 hour, w^e reach (//') the vineyard, passing by sev- 

 eral nice cottages of the hill folk, where, above 

 the vineyards, a very wide prospect is opened on 

 the regions of Bautzen and Gorlitz. In the mid- 

 dle, the highest point six miles off, appearing 

 singularly isolated, divides the horizon, and is 



