262 Notes and Reflections during a Tour : — 



bark of trees; and 6th, not smoking." The proprietor of this 

 villa, in 1828, was Bersted, the prime minister of the Grand 

 Duke of Baden. 



Public Gardens at Carlsruhe. — Several of the streets and 

 squares are planted with rows of trees. In one of them is a 

 fine avenue of Platanus ; in another, one of Catalpa ; several 

 of Acacia ; and the trees in front of the barracks are^'sculus 

 carnea and rubicunda. In the open space in front of the 

 palace are triple and quadruple lines of trees, of a variety of 

 sorts ; and among these are placed, during the summer season, 

 some hundreds of large orange trees in tubs, covered with 

 blossoms and fruits. The fragrance thus diffused through the 

 town in the beginning of summer, with the music of the birds 

 in the surrounding woods, is said to be delightful, and 

 altogether unequalled in Germany. All the public have the 

 enjoyment, not only of these orange groves, and of the public 

 English garden, but of the park and gardens of the grand 

 duke. Indeed, a prince in Germany enjoys nothing in the 

 open air that is not partaken by all his people; and from this 

 circumstance we in part account for the continued existence, 

 at so advanced a period of society, of so many petty princes, 

 each with immense palaces and extensive gardens. The 

 people are highly taxed to keep up these gardens ; but they 

 have almost as much enjoyment of them as if they were their 

 own. One of the finest circumstances in Carlsruhe is, that in 



two dnections the Forest of Hartwald comes up to the gates of 

 the city. These gates are very handsome ; one of them, the 

 Durlacher Thor (fg. 74.), is by. the architect Mliller ; and the 



