S86 Notes cmd licflcctions during a Tour : — 



fine arts, is much more attached to building than to any 

 other description of improvement ; and, contrary, as we be- 

 lieve, to the wishes of tlie majority of the nation, has sunk 

 immense sums in a massive palace in the Tuscan manner ; in 

 a glyptothek, or building for statues and sculptures ; in a 

 pinakothek, or building for pictures ; and in a variety of 

 other buildings of luxury, for himself, for his relations, or for 

 public display. The only argument that can be urged in 

 favour of these buildings is, that they are generally in exceed- 

 ingly good taste. 



The palace of Schleissheim is an immense Italian building, 

 with Venetian chimney-tops, never entirely completed. The 

 park and gardens are perfectly flat, and of great extent. 

 Water, walls, terraces, and vases, which, with the palace, 

 must have been erected at an enormous expense, were, in 

 1828, in a deplorable state of decay. The kitchen-garden 

 forms part of one of the extensive government nurseries 

 elsewhere described. The coach-houses and stable offices 

 constitute the buildings of the Schleissheim agricultural esta- 

 blishment, under the direction of M. Schonleutner, in which 

 pupils are instructed in all the departments of agriculture, 

 both theoretically and practically. 



The garden of the palace of Anspach contains twenty or 

 thirty acres, laid out in the simplest form of the French 

 manner, being intersected by walks, so as to throw it into 

 square and parallelogram compartments, bordered by rows 

 of trees. Some of these compartments are in turf, but the 

 greater part are used as a royal nursery of fruit trees ; the 

 king of Bavaria being unquestionably the greatest nursery 

 gardener in Europe. There is an orangery here, that has 

 long been celebrated in Germany : it is about 300 ft. long, 

 30ft. high, and SO ft. wide: it contains 107 large orange 

 trees in boxes, which were, in November, 1828, covered with 

 fruit. The stems of some of these trees were upwards of a 

 foot in diameter, and the heads from ten to twelve feet across. 

 There were a few other common green-house plants, such as 

 pomegranates, olives, myrtles, &c. In an adjoining green- 

 house was a small collection of ordinary green-house plants, 

 and there were pits and frames for forcing and protecting 

 culinary vegetables. In travelling through a small kingdon), 

 like that of Ba^'aria, it is impossible not to be struck by the 

 circumstance, that every thing great and good, in the way of 

 architecture and gardening, belongs to the king; and one 

 cannot help feeling it to be singular, that a people v>\\o are 

 at once poor and enlightened, should submit to the very 



