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These have been since destroyed, and an open lawn, varied 

 by groups in the natural manner, forms now the main feature 

 from the garden front of the palace. The natural forest 

 scenery is increased in interest by the introduction of exotics, 

 and especially evergreens, along the margins of the alleys and 

 walks. Here the hemlock spruce, Norway spruce, silver jfir, 

 Weymouth pine, and arbor vitae have an admirable effect. 

 Except in front of the palace, there are scarcely any glades 

 of turf; and there being, in consequence, very little mowing, 

 and no clipping of hedges, the pleasure-ground part of 

 Carlsruhe garden is kept up at very little expense. Ex- 

 clusively of the gardens, there is a park for deer of 400 

 acres. 



All the Gardetis and Park Scenery at Carlsruhe are at all 

 times open to the public; and they are rendered the more 

 agreeable, during the summer season, by a band of music 

 which perambulates the ground, and is heard, at short in- 

 tervals, from morning till night. The gardener who showed 

 us through the grounds in 1828, M. Napoleon Vernier, a 

 Frenchman, a poet, and an enthusiast, informed us that it was 

 delightful to work in them, because the nightingale sang from 

 the evening till the morning ; the military band began to 

 practise before breakfast ; the rehearsal at the opera house, 

 which is close to the garden, succeeded ; and this was fol- 

 lowed by the ambulating band in the woods, which continued 

 to play during the remainder of the day. 



The Villa and Gardens of fVatfhalden, near Etflijtgen, con- 



