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in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Those which the Bishop of 

 Wiirzburg laid out, adjoining the fortifications of the city, had a large rock- 

 work cascade, with groups of huntsmen and dogs, and in the labyrinth were 

 a series of small retreats or chapels. At Cassel the gardens of the Prince 

 of Hesse were designed by a Frenchman, De Lisle, about 1761. 



In the neighbourhood of Berlin the principal old gardens are those of 

 Charlottenburg and Potsdam. The former have been engraved by Jeremias 



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schOnbrunn in the eighteenth century. 



Wolff, who gives a good idea of their ancient grandeur. There is little left 

 now except the orange garden and the great forecourt ; the parterres have 

 been made into lawns. Clean, quiet Potsdam stands on the River Havel, 

 sixteen miles from Berlin. The gardens of the old Schloss have been 

 modernized, but the little white, rococo Palace of Sans Souci (illus.,p. 258), 

 which the great Frederick built in 1745, has still its delightful terraced garden. 

 He desired to be buried at the foot of a statue of Flora on one of the 

 terraces — " when I am there I shall be sans souci.'''' Frederick's own design 



