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festival is held. This meadow is enclosed on the west by a range of gentle 

 acclivities, disposed somewhat in the form of an amphitheatre. Every year, 

 in October, a great multitude of people from all parts of the kingdom assemble 

 at this festival, which was established by the Agricultural Society, for the 

 exhibition of agricultural produce, and for the granting of premiums to the 

 producers of objects worthy of reward. 



Those farmers who distinguish themselves by their agricultural labours, or 

 by the quality and genuineness of the breed of their horses, bullocks, sheep, 

 and pigs, receive publicly, from the hands of the minister for the home de- 

 partment, and in the presence of the king and the whole court, the prizes 

 previously awarded to them by the decision of agricultural judges. Public 

 games and horse-races are connected with this solemnity. Thus, besides the 

 great utility of this annual festival in encouraging and improving agriculture, 

 it affords to the mere spectator a most pleasing spectacle and much genuine 

 enjoyment. On these amphitheatre-like heights, where the Bavarian people, 

 like the aneient Greeks at the Olympic games, annually assemble, a picturesque 

 plantation has been laid out by order of the king. This plantation is to 

 serve as an enclosure and background to a building, which is to have the 

 character of a monument, and in which the busts of eminent national artists 

 and men of letters will be placed. The plantation is in the natural style of 

 landscape-gardening ; and, though it is as yet of little height, it has a very 

 picturesque effect, which will be greatly increased when the architectural ob- 

 jects are finished. 



I must also mention that our beautiful English garden, a plan of which I 

 have sent you, is about to receive a new and magnificent ornament. The first 

 grand view of the garden, or that which is seen on entering as you come from 

 the town, has hitherto, notwithstanding all the natural beauty produced by 

 the simplicity of the planting, been felt to want a suitable architectural object, 

 to serve as a resting-point for the eye of the spectator. This object our 

 monarch's love of art is now about to supply. A circular temple of red 

 marble, 54 ft. high and 23 ft. in diameter, will soon adorn this fine garden 

 scene. The grand effect of this temple will be greatly increased by its site. 

 It is to be erected on a hill of considerable height, formed, indeed, by art, but 

 in the true style of natural gardening. Here, the eye of the delighted pro- 

 menader will enjoy, not only a view of this beautiful garden scene, with the 

 waterfall and the river in rapid motion below him, but also of the city, with 

 its lofty towers, in the background ; and, looking over the city, he will have, 

 in the distant south, the prospect of the majestic chain of the Tyrolese Alps. 



Full three years must yet elapse before this grand garden scene can be 

 finished. If you should visit Munich after that period, you will see it in a 

 complete state, and I hope you will be pleased with its execution. I am 

 always yours. — Sckell. 



Stuttgardty Oct. 6. 1833. — Sir, Not having succeeded in getting employed as 

 a court gardener, another young man and myself have resolved on commencing 

 business as nurserymen. I have bought a piece of ground in the neighbour- 

 hood of Friedericksthor, which, in point of' soil, shelter, and locality, is well 

 adapted for our purpose. Here I hope that we shall by and by be able to 

 show one of the first nurseries in Germany. We shall have an arboretum, 

 and a scientific arrangement of herbaceous plants, and my partner will give 

 lessons in botany. I have published a translation of Dr. Lindley's Outlines of 

 the Principles of Horticulture {Hauptgrundscetze des Gartenbaues, Sfc. ; von John 

 Lindley ; ausdem Englischen von Willi. Hertz. 12mo. Stuttgardt, 1833.), a copy 

 of which I beg you to accept; and my partner and myself intend commencing, 

 in spring, a weekly or monthly Gardener's Magazine. We shall establish a 

 garden library, and take young men as apprentices or pupils, whom we shall 

 engage to instruct in every thing that relates to gardening and botany. 



But, as we have a great deal to struggle with, I must entreat 'your assistance, 

 and that of all my other kind friends in England. We shall be happy to 

 receive books, seeds, plants, cuttings, bulbs; in short, every thing that you can 



