EXAMPLES OF WORK. 



(i) KESZTHELY. 



KESZTHELY is a small town in Hungary, at the southern extremity 

 of the great Flatten or Balaton lake. At the western end of the 

 town stood the old family seat of the Counts Festetics. On the 

 western side of the Schloss, a small park had been made about 

 ninety years ago, and many of the trees then planted are now 

 very finely grown to considerable size. Count Tassilo Festetics 

 determined to make this place a palatial home, at the same time 

 maintaining his ancestral castle as far as possible intact. To do 

 this he caused the present structure to be erected, as it were, 

 over, and to contain, the old Schloss. The new Palace was 

 raised from the design of Herr V. Rumpelmeyer, under the 

 immediate direction of Herrn Haas and Paschkis. It then became 

 necessary to consider the artistic treatment of the surrounding 

 land, and the fitting illustration of the grand mansion in its 

 position. To that end I was asked in 1885 to report upon the 

 improvement of the grounds. I found that no view of the distant 

 country could be obtained from any of the principal rooms ; and 

 that on the eastern or true front, the much used, dusty public 

 road passed within twenty yards of the building. Beyond this, 

 the ground sloped gradually down towards the lake, and the whole 



