V6 



Foreign Notices. — Russia. Denmark. 



RUSSIA. 



An Economical Society, and a School for the education of future Agricultu- 

 rists, have recently been established at Moscow, through the exertions of 

 Prince Galitzin. " The branches of instruction are the following : — the 

 Russian language, arithmetic, geography, statistics, rural architecture, sur- 

 veying, book-keeping, agricultural chemistry, botany, the physiology of 

 plants, the management of woods and forests, technology, farming, and the 

 veterinary art. The course lasts five years. The Society publishes a journal 

 in the Russian language, which has already accomplished much good." 

 {For. Quar. Rev., July, 1827.) 



DENMARK. 



Hamlet's Garden is situated in the neighbourhood of Elsinore, and is 

 the favourite promenade of the inhabitants of that seaport. It consists of 

 two parts, the upper and lower garden. The lower garden is laid out in 

 the French style, but the upper part is in the English manner. The palace 

 of Marienlyst {fig. 29.), Mary's delight, stands in the lower garden It was 



intended for the residence of His present Danish Majesty, when Crown 

 Prince. From the hill behind the palace may be enjoyed a marine pros- 

 pect, which, travellers say, exceeds every thing between Denmark and 

 Naples. Near Hamlet's Garden is Hellebek, a village belonging to Count 

 Schimmelmann, who for many years was one of the cabinet ministers of 

 Denmark. The situation of this village, close to the sea, combines such a 

 variety of marine and rural scenery as might present many interesting 

 studies to the painter. The beech, the national tree of Denmark, flourishes 

 here in superlative vigour, overtopping the oak, of which, however, many 

 very fine specimens are also observed. Nature in this place seems to be 

 left to herself, and altogether divested of those ornaments, which, in too 

 many cases, injure what they were meant to improve. The traveller 

 would scarcely suspect that he was approaching a nobleman's seat, when he 

 enters Hellebek. {Feldborg.) 



