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romantic, without being grand, and exhibits the irrigation of irregular grassy 

 surfaces, carried to a greater extent, and to a higher degree of perfection, 

 than has been done, we beheve, either in Italy or Britain. A proprietor of 

 lands in the Highlands of Scotland, or in Wales, should see the crops of 

 grass raised on the steep irregular sides of the hills that include this narrow 

 valley, in order to form some idea of what his territory is capable of. The 

 inns in this vale are decidedly more clean than those of France, or of the 

 districts of Baden and Bavaria which we have hitherto passed through, and 

 the cause, probably, originates in the great abundance of running water. 

 The cottages are large, and display an exuberance of design in their con- 

 struction, which has obviously arisen from the ample supplies of wood, 

 chiefly spruce and silver fir, with which the tops and rocky parts of the hills 

 are clothed. The third day was spent in passing through and examining 

 the Black Forest, of which one part consists of pine and fir woods, and 

 another chiefly of oaks and beeches. The greater part of the tract of 

 country, however, which bears the name of Black Forest, is an elevated, 

 irregular surface, with no other wood than the young cherry trees which 

 have been lately planted by the road side. 



At Doneschingen, in the Forest, we found the best inn which we have 

 met with since leaving Paris ; and, near it, the gardens of Prince Fiirsten- 

 burg, containing a good collection of heaths and other Cape plants, and a 

 very complete forcing establishment in pits, in the manner of M. Labou- 

 chere, at Hylands; (Vol. III. p. 585.) The gardener, M. Marstrand, is a Dane, 

 a pupil of M. Lindegaard, F.H.S., and a well-informed man. He has a 

 garden library, containing German, French, and English books, as he un- 

 derstands these languages as well as his own ; and here, as at Strasburg, 

 Augsburg, and Munich, we found the Encyclojicedie der Gartenliunst. At 

 two of these cities we found the Gardener's Magazine also ; which, with the 

 Magazine of Natural History, has now, we trust, struck root in many places 

 in Baden and Bavaria. 



The fourth day, we passed over a hilly country to Ehingen, examining, 

 at Grauchenweis, a frontier village of Wurtemburg, the grounds, and house 

 recently roofed in, of the hereditary (or expectant) Prince Hohenzoll Sig- 

 maringen. The house is a cube of brick, to be covered by cement, and the 

 whole of the interior is to be heated from a hot air stove, built in the cel- 

 lars, and communicating with the stairs, passages, and every apartment, by 

 means of flues in the walls. There are open fire-places in the principal 

 apartments. The interior arrangement of a square house is always sufB- 

 ciently simple and obvious. What is commendable in the exterior of this 

 mansion are, a low roof, without windows in it, and a portico of sufficient 

 projection to admit a carriage. The chimney-tops are not so well managed 

 for a square building ; they are small, and scattered irregularly over the roof, 

 as in Italy ; whereas, they ought to have been in masses, and placed symme- 

 trically. But it is a great improvement to have got rid of the high roof and 

 garret windows, which always convey a mean expression, and, to our taste, 

 degrade most of the finest private houses in France and Germany, as the 

 ehimney-tops do most of those in England. The grounds are laid out in 

 the English manner of Sckell, the father of the natural style of landscape- 

 gardening in Bavaria, and one of the most scientific pro^ssors of that art 

 that has ever appeared in any country. Whatever has been done by him, 

 Va known by any one conversant with the subject, at the first glance, by the 

 trees and shrubs being all arranged in masses of one kind, in imitation of 

 nature, and in accordance with the principles of painting. We know of no 

 landscape-gardener in England, who, like the late M. Sckell, united at once 

 the practical knowledge of gardening, agriculture, and botany, with the 

 knowledge of the principles of painting, and, generally, of the fine arts ; 

 who wasj in fact, at the same time, a gardener, a painter, and a metaphysi- 

 cian. However it may startle the English reader, to be told that the Eng- 



