178 Hints on Landscape Gardening 



the lodgings («w), and many promenades to the 

 nearer mountains. Much care has been taken to 

 get as great a contrast as possible with the views 

 of the regions visited yesterday by dwelling on 

 its varied and rugged character, as well as by 

 introducing new subjects, or at least leading to 

 them in a new direction. 



The lover of free, untrammeled Nature will 

 therefore be most pleased with this region. It 

 will be easy for him to find deepest solitude in 

 dense forest and glade, where there is nothing to 

 disturb his thoughts, except at most the monot- 

 onous tap of the iron hammer, close by at Keula, 

 or a more gently hammering woodpecker, or 

 perhaps the sudden apparition of a miner's black 

 head, which appears and disappears like a ghost 

 out of the earth. 



The ** pleasure-ground " here is also treated 

 quite differently from that in the neighborhood 

 of the castle. Public baths, it is obvious, have 

 quite other requirements than those which are 

 suited to a private residence. Shady walks and a 

 number of comfortable and roomy resting-points 

 are here specially called for, as well as a choice 

 of plants whose flowering season is due in late 

 summer, the principal bathing season. A small 

 flower garden is on the right of the *' Kurhaus," 

 and is enclosed by high and steep bluffs, which 

 are by nature so rich in odd formations that I 

 hit upon the contrivance of treating them in the 

 taste of an Oriental garden with various brightly 

 colored pavilions on the steep and sheer heights. 



