THE 



GARDENER'S MAGAZINE, 



AUGUST, 1833. 



ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS. 



Art. I. Notes and Reflections made during a Tour through Part 

 of France and Germany, in the Autumn of the Year 1828. By 

 the Conductor. 



(^Continued from p. 269.) 



The principal gardens of Bavaria are the property of the 

 crown or the government, and are, for the most part, situ- 

 ated in the neighbourhood of Munich. We have before 

 (Vol. IV. p. 491.) given an outline of our tour through the 

 Duchy of Baden, by the romantic valley of Kinzigthal, 

 across the Black Forest, through Donaueschingen (source of 

 the Danube), Ehingen, Ulm, and Augsburg, to the Bavarian 

 capital ; and we shall here offer a few notices of the gardens 

 which we visited, in respect to landscape-gardening, floricul- 

 ture, horticulture, and arboriculture ; concluding with a notice 

 of the state of agriculture, rural architecture, and territorial 

 and domestic improvement generally. 



Landscape-gardening is more encouraged in Bavaria than 

 it is in any other state of Germany. The first impulse given 

 to this taste was by the laying out of the English garden of 

 Munich, under the direction of Count Rumford, by Louis 

 Sckell, in 1789. Previously to that period, Maximilian I. 

 had a geometric garden planted in Munich in 1614; and, 

 subsequently, Maximilian Joseph greatly enlarged Nymphen- 

 burg, added the English garden by Sckell, and formed an 

 extensive botanical collection. The present king, Louis L, 

 an author, a poet, and a great lover and encourager of the 

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