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GARDEN CRAFT IN EUROPE 



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COMBINED HEDGE and 6CREEN 



HEIDELBERG 



Palatine, Frederic V, de Caus followed her to Germany, where about 1615 he 

 was employed upon the great palace of Heidelberg (illus., p. 235), observ- 

 ing closely his master's instructions in laying out the gardens with " toutes 

 les raretes que I'on y pourroit faire." These works were stopped in 1619, 

 when they were almost finished, on account of the Thirty Years' War, and 

 at the same time de Caus returned to France, where his fame had already 

 preceded him, and was appointed to the Court of Louis XIII. De Caus was 

 the author of an interesting work on hydraulics, Les Raisons des Forces mouv- 

 vantes (translated into EngHsh by Moxon), wherein he gives directions for 

 making the hydraulic toys without which no garden was then complete. 

 He shows how birds may be made to sing, owls to hoot, and illustrates a number 

 of other quaint water devices. In one design for a grotto, Galatea, drawn by 

 dolphins, glides round a pond to the accompaniment of a Cyclops playing 

 upon a flute. In another, Neptune stands upon a shell, drawn by sea horses 

 and attended by amorini riding dolphins. He describes the construction 

 of water organs, rnusical wheels, trumpets which sound only when the sun 

 reaches the meridian, etc. Many of these extraordinary water curiosities 

 were constructed in the Heidelberg gardens, and de Caus pubHshed the 

 designs in 1620,1 \^ ^ quaint book full of interesting drawings. The 



1 Hortus Palatinus a Frederico. . . . Electore. . . . Heidelbergae exstructus. Frankfort, 

 1620. Also Pfnor, Monograpite du Chateau de Heidelberg, 1857. 



