GERMANY 



The Rose Garden at Schloss F riedrichshof, 

 Cronberg-i.- Taunus 



ROSE GARDEN at Friedrichshof 

 - was made out of a potato field, and was 

 designed entirely by the late Empress Frederick 

 of Germany. The general scheme is that of an 

 Italian garden. It is on the slope of a hill, and 

 is laid out in shallow terraces connected by steps 

 in a centre line, and has a fountain in the middle 

 of it. The roses fill the beds on each terrace - 

 some standards, some low-growing bushes all 

 arranged after the English manner. 



The Tower seen in the distance is the so-called 

 Freithurm of the old Castle of Cronberg. The 

 beginnings of this ancient fortress date, probably, 

 from the fourteenth century, and the vicissitudes 

 of its long existence had not only reduced it to 

 ruins, but degraded it and its surroundings to 



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