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GARDEN CRAFT IN EUROPE 



is now in quite a ruinous condition ; it was originally laid out as a public 

 promenade. 



The Count of Schonborn's gardens at Weissenstein and Genbach were 

 both famous in the eighteenth century. The engravings of Salomon 

 Kleiner show them laid out in the stiff French manner of the school that 

 succeeded Le Notre, Weissenstein occupying a large oblong space with 

 elaborate fountains. Genbach, surrounded by a moat, was the more inter- 



A MODERN GERMAN GARDEN. 



esting of the two, and had curious waterworks, a grotto and a very original 

 circular parterre garden. 



According to Loudon, gardening as an art of design was introduced into 

 Poland by the electoral kings about the end of the seventeenth century, 

 and especially by Stanislaus Augustus, the third elector. The palace of 

 Lazienki was built by Stanislaus I at Ujasdow, and the garden, which was a 

 poor imitation of the style of Le Notre, consisted of a number of broad green 

 alleys crossing each other at right angles, and of smaller paths leading to 

 open circles of turf for dancing and music, and for tents and booths. Pavilions 



