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laid out in this manner re(fuires much skill and ability on the part of 

 the gardener, as well in the arrangement as in the choice of the flow- 

 ers; and he must also be careful that, throughout the whole sum- 

 mer, there be no lack of flowering plants. It is but justice to the 

 baron's head gardener (M. Abel,) to say that he not only has fully 

 accomplished this task, but has also been successful in all the requi- 

 sites of this garden. The connoisseur, however, does not see the 

 usual ornamental plants in this sea of flowers, but a great many 

 rarities; and, in short, here, as in every part of the grounds, the 

 aesthetic taste of the baron is paramount. Beautiful is this garden 

 within a garden, and hence it has become the model garden of Aus- 

 tria. Here the most beautiful landscape opens on the view; the 

 gently swelling hills apj)eur in the most romantic forms, and on one 

 of these is seen the pretty little garden-dwelling of Dr. von Malfatti. 

 At a short distance behind you stands one of the tasteful edifices of 

 the proprietor, which are one story high, viz., a summer-house. 

 The painting of the saloon is in the Indian style, from a design by 

 the baron, the ceiling consisting of various-colored ornaments, and 

 the walls of paintings on a red ground. Small brackets are fixed on 

 it here and there, on which statues are placed. The chairs and so- 

 fas are covered with silk, which the baron brought from India and 

 China, and the whole is arranged and kept up in the Oriental style. 

 On the right is a smaller saloon, and on leaving this you enter the 

 open air, where the eye is delighted with the beautiful flowering 

 climbers, and the tastefully arranged flower-beds which surround the 

 building. Some of the climbers grow on yellow and red rods, which 

 support a projection of the summer-house, and thus form a kind of 

 covered terrace. Farther on is a beautiful Caidlpa syringfefbYia; 

 and on leaving the building, which is girded, as it were, with a band 

 of flowers, the eye glides over a carpet of turf to a green hillock, 

 where the prospect becomes more extensive. On the left, towards 

 the west, are the villages of Upper and Lower St. Beit; and on the 

 right, and somewhat more to the north-west, on the side of a gently 

 swelling hill, are the villages of Baumgarten and Hutteldorf. 



We now leave this part of the garden to enter the propagating 

 department. This house is 125 feet long, with slanting lights facing 

 the east and west. It is heated by hot water under the direction of 

 M. Daniel Hooibrenk, Baron Hugel's garden director, and is most 

 admirably suited for the purpose. We have to thank M. Hooibrenk 

 for having introduced this method of heating in Austria. He erect- 

 ed the first apparatus in 1837, and it has not only been imitated here, 

 but in Hungary, and also in other countries. The utility of this 

 method of heating in propagating plants may be easily seen when 

 compared with the old manner, still to be met with here and there, 

 of heating by means of tan and horse dung, which is always dirty, 

 and very uncertain. 



What M. Hooibrenk has effected by this means in propagation 

 may be witnessed in the propagating garden here, where the present 

 extensive collection was obtained by the above method; and of these 

 plants I need only mention the propagation of the ConiferaB from 

 cuttings; and other plants that are difKcult to strike, such as Agnos- 

 tus sinukta, Dracophyllum attenuktum, Magndh'a grandiflora, J^lex 



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