Gardens 261 



Prince Puckler's description of the garden at Windsor 

 and the landscape beyond forms a good illustration of 

 the proper relation of these features: 



"The garden lay before us, a perfect paradise, 

 lighted by the glow of the evening sun. Along the 

 whole house, now projecting, now receding, were 

 verandas of various forms and clothed with creeping 

 plants. These formed a border to the gayest flower 

 garden covering the whole slope of the hill. Close 

 upon the edge of it was a narrow green valley, between 

 which the ground rose again and formed a higher 

 line of hill, the side of which was clothed with huge 

 beeches.*' 



That all is not perfect in English landscape work Prince 

 Puckler indicates in the following quotation: 



"I found the garden (pleasure ground) much 

 altered, but not I think for the better; for there is 

 now a mixture of the regular and the irregular which 

 has a very unpleasant effect. The ugly fashion now 

 prevalent in England of planting the 'pleasure 

 ground' with single trees or shrubs placed at a 

 considerable distance, almost in rows, has been 

 introduced in several parts of these grounds. This 

 gives the grass plots the air of nursery grounds. 

 The shrubs are trimmed round so as not to touch each 

 other, the earth carefully cleared about them every 

 day, and the edges of the turf cut in stiff lines, so 

 that you see more of black earth than of green foliage, 

 and the free beauty of nature is quite checked. " 



