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NoTio XVII. Pap(! 89. 



Mr. J. C. Loudon, in his Enoyt-Iopcdiii of Modorii Gardening, one of 

 the most useful and interesting publications of modern times, mentionEf 

 the remarkable progress, which Landscape Cardoning has made in 

 Poland. The first example of it was at Pulawy, the principal seat of 

 the Czartoryski family, on the Vistula, under the superintendence of 

 the Princess Isabella Czartoryski, a lady of distinguished talents and 

 accomplishments, and who had resided long in England. She carried 

 over to Poland, Savage an English gardener ; and with his assistance, 

 and that of Vogel and Frey, two artists of Warsaw, she laid out this 

 magnificent place in the last century, and before 1784. In 1801, she 

 published a regular Treatise on the style of English Gardening, with 

 plates, which greatly contributed to bring the art into fashion among 

 her countrymen. This is perhaps the best foreign treatise on the sub- 

 ject, excepting the large and excellent work of Professor Hirschfeld of 

 Kiel, (pie Theorie der Gardenkunst), which for many reasons is well 

 deserving of an English dress, as the French translation gives no com- 

 petent idea of the merit of the original. 



Mr. Loudon, who visited Poland in 1813, and saw many trees that 

 had been transplanted by Stanislaus, soon after 1764, gives the follow- 

 ing account of the palace and grounds at Lazenki, which contains a 

 curious picture of the manners, as well as the Wood, at the residence 

 of this unfortunate prince, 



" By far the most remarkable of these gardens (says he), is Lazenki, 

 or the Bath, formed by the last king, on the site of an ancient park at 

 Ujasdow, within the suburbs of the city. At the beginning of the reign 

 of Stanislaus, in 1764, it was a marshy wood, planted with alders, with 

 some canals, and other stagnated pieces of water, near which was a 

 grotesque edifice, called the Bath, from which this park takes its name. 



" The Palace, a beautiful piece of Roman architecture, from the de- 

 sign of Camsitzer, a German artist, is placed on an island, in a consid- 

 erable piece of water. It consists of a centre and two wings. The 

 centre is placed in the middle of a narrow part of the lake, and the 

 wings are on opposite shores, and joined to the centre by arches, with 

 orangeries over them. The entrance is by a carriage-portico in one of 

 the wings, to which you arrive, without seeing the lake ; and on enter- 

 ing the orangery, its first effect is surprising and delightful. On the 

 north shore of this lake, there is an open amphitheatre of stone, with 



