SOME GARDENS OF ENCHANTMENT AND RENOWN. 



This famous 



Fig. 1642. — The Gardens at San Souci, Germany. 



follows : " The King wished to spend 

 Saturday at Versailles, but it seemed as 

 if Providence willed that he should not, 

 for the buildings are in no condition to 

 receive him, and there is a prodigious 

 mortality of workmen so that carts full 

 of the dead are carried off every night 

 as they are from the Hotel Dieu, ( a 

 famous hospital.)" In contrast to this 

 dark picture of a tryants oppression, we 

 would place the story of the old wind- 

 mill at Sans Souci the garden repre 

 sented in our next cut, which shows 

 royalty in a brighter light 

 wind-mill stands close in 

 the rear of the palace 

 erected by Frederick the 

 Great of Prussia, and still 

 belongs to the descen- 

 dants of the sturdy miller 

 who refused to surrender 

 it to that monarch when 

 the latter wanted to pull 

 it down, and include the 

 site in his own gardens. 

 The original mill was a 

 very small one, but Fred- 

 erick having lost his law- 

 suit with the miller, with 

 great generosity built a 

 larger mill for his op- 

 ponent. More than a 



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century later the owner was forc- 

 ed by adversity to think of selling 

 the property and offered it to 

 King William. The Crown still 

 generous, settled on the owner of 

 the mill a sum sufficient to 

 maintain him on his property. 

 Our last cut is of a landscape 

 garden in Japan. The Japanese 

 are very successful in making in 

 their gardens imitations on a 

 small scale of natural scenery. 

 Miniature mountains, lakes and 

 dwarf trees figure in their com- 

 positions. A famous and novel concep" 

 tion is the gardens of a Buddhist eccle- 

 siastic which illustrates thelegend of the 

 nodding stones which bowed down to the 

 earth when they heard the words of the 

 Monk Daito, an early missionary of the 

 Buddhist religion. Some Japanese gar- 

 dens such as Ginkakuji, or Silver Pavilion 

 and Kinkakuji, or the Golden Pavilion 

 are some three or four hundred years old. 

 One will see there trees a century old 

 not more than a foot high, and many 

 other sights strange to Western eyes. 

 Maplehurst. A. E. Mickle. 



Fig. 1643. — A Japanese Garden. 



