Public Gardens at Carhruhe. 



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other, the Ettlinger Thor {fig. 75), is by „the celebrated 

 Weinbrenner, who may be designated the Nicholson of 

 Germany. 



The fuhlic English Garden at Carlsruhe contains about sixty 

 acres of a perfectly flat surface, and a piece of water. It is 

 surrounded and crossed in all directions by winding roads, 

 which give it that degree of sameness, as a natural garden, 

 which the Bois de Boulogne, near Paris, has as an artificial 

 one. The conspicuous defect in the plantations at Carlsruhe 

 is the want of evergreens. This want, however, does not 

 result from any ignorance, on the part of the planters of trees, 

 of the different species of evergreens that are to be pur- 

 chased in European nurseries, but from the great severity 

 ,of the winters, which destroys, if not every year, at least every 

 three or four years, when a winter is unusually severe, many 

 of the species. 



The Garden of the Margravine Amelia {Jig. 76.) is situated 

 in the suburbs of Carlsruhe. It lies on both sides of a street. 

 It contains about a dozen acres, laid out in 1809, in the 

 natural style, by Hartweg, There are some handsome gar- 

 den buildings, and some artificial inequalities of surface, very 

 well managed. An archway under the public road connects 

 . the one garden with the other. The road is concealed from 

 the house and the grounds by raised mounds, sloping gently 

 backwards from the road ; and the carriages and horsemen 

 passing are pointed to as apparently in the garden, seeming 

 to be considered as objects of interest rather than of dislike. 



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