eo^ Improvements at Windsor Castle. 



munity that good government can either be formed or maintained. Every 

 day shows more and more the influence of general opinion on modern 

 governments, as promulgated through the daily and periodical press ; and 

 hence the great importance to the government and the landed interest of 

 the country of enlightening those who cannot enlighten themselves, in order 

 that their power may not be turned en masse against them by a revolution- 

 ary or party spirit of any kind j and to the poor and ignorant themselves, 

 that they may the better be able to understand and maintain their natural 

 and political rights. Having given this advice, it may be asked what books 

 we would recommend to young gardeners and farmers, from which to 

 acquire that degree of knowledge in morals and politics that every man 

 ought to possess ; and as the subject must always be considered secondary 

 to professional reading, we shall content ourselves for the present with 

 recommending the most prominent reviews and newspapers. Those news- 

 papers whose knowledge of political economy we consider the most sound 

 are the Scotsman, the Morning Chronicle, the Examiner, and the Globe ; 

 but there may be others, and especially country newspapers, equally scientific 

 in their general views. We regret that the Farmer'' s Journal, a newspaper 

 read every where by the farmers, and containing many valuable agricultural 

 communications, should pursue a line of politics, which, as far as it has any 

 effect, can only encourage false hopes in farmers. Were that extensively- 

 circulated paper to take a different line of argument, we cannot help think- 

 ing it would render the farmers a much greater service than by encouraging 

 their outcry against free trade. 



Art. V. The Improvements at Windsor Castle. 



Having from time to time heard of the orangery and flower-garden 

 formed by the king, a pompous and fanciful account of them, and of the 

 grounds at Virginia water, which appeared in the Mo]-ni?ig Chroiiicle of 

 May 21., determined us to go to Windsor soon afterwards. The new 

 flower-garden forming there, of which we present a general outline from 

 memory (^g. 130.), occupies between three and four acres, which are enclosed 

 from the park on the east side of the grand terrace. This garden is sur- 

 rounded by a new terrace {a a) on the same level as the old ones {ef), and 

 the arena of the garden being 12 or 15 ft. below the level of the terraces, 

 the descent to it is by two staircases {b c). The orangery is formed under 

 a part of the terrace (da), and is lighted by upright windows in the manner 

 of the old orangeries at Kensington and Versailles, facing the south and 

 south-west. It follows from this arrangement that walking on the terrace 

 all round the flower-garden, the eye looks down on its arena of grass and 

 beds of shrubs and flowers on the one hand, and outwards on the exterior 

 park scenery on the other : the effect thus produced is dignified and grand 

 and altogether suited to the castle and the situation. When wehave 

 stated this, however, we have, we think, stated all that can be said, either in 

 favour of the orangery or the garden. 



The first grand deformity which strikes the eye of a stranger when 

 looking down on the flower-garden towards the orangery from the old 

 terrace {d e) is, that this building has been a second thought, the ground 

 being excavated in front of it, in the manner of a sunk fence (Jig. 130. gh). 

 The surface has no doubt been lowered in this awkward form in order to 

 obtain a sufficient height for the orangery ; but by spoiling the symmetry of 

 the flower-garden it greatly injures its effect, and destroys in our minds all 



