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the intervening space was devoted to parterres and bosquets. Lustheim, 

 which was intended only as a temporary residence, stood upon a huge circular 

 island laid out as -parterres de broderie ; beyond was a semi-circular gallery, 

 400 yards in length, for the exhibition of paintings and sculpture. There 

 seems no end to the vast parterres, long straight waterpieces and immense 

 bosquets of these German Court gardens, laid out upon a scale of grandeur 

 which their owners could hardly hojpe to keep up. 



THE CASINO AT SANS SOUCI. 



The German princes 'of the eighteenth century vied with each other 

 in creating immense garden schemes. At Carlsruhe the Margrave of Baden 

 conceived the stupendous idea of combining the palace and gardens in a 

 huge circular plan that included the whole of the town itself. The Schloss, 

 planned fanwise, was connected by a gallery, used for the jeu de paume^ with 

 a tower from which the Prince could look down thirty-two main avenues, 

 twenty-three stretching across his park, and nine forming the streets of 

 his town. The gardens of the Elector's Palace at Dresden were famous 



