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one side of the church, which was built prior to the castle, are 

 the statues of many of the forefathers of the Lumleys ; likewise 

 that of St. Cuthbert, whose remains had lain here 1 1 5 years, when 

 the monks, expelled by the Danes, fled with them toRipon. Lum- 

 ley Castle is a quadrangular edifice, with four majestic octangular 

 towers ; remarkable for being the resting-place of James I. of 

 Scotland, on his way to ascend the throne of England. The 

 castle is seen from the great London road for five miles, and is 

 much admired by travellers. This noble building has not been 

 inhabited by any of the proprietors, the Earls of Scarborough, 

 for thirty years. The garden, which is small, is situated in a 

 valley to the east of the castle ; and has been let for many years 

 to Mr. Earl, who, besides being a good gardener, is also a florist. 

 Staffordshire, Nov. 1833. G. W. 



Art. III. Observations on the Landscape-Gardening of Germany, a$ 

 compared ivith that of England. By the Chevalier Charles Sckell, 

 Director-General of Gardens in the Kingdom of Bavaria. 



I have read, with much gratification, the notices, in several 

 Numbers of your Magazine, of our gardens here, and our ma- 

 nagement of them. The manner in which you express yourself 

 is indeed very flattering ; and I should say that you had done 

 our gardens and our art too much honour, had I not conceived 

 that I found, in the opinions of several foreigners who have 

 visited us, and particularly of your own countrymen, in some 

 measure, the confirmation of your views, particularly with regard 

 to our gardens in the natural style. This favourable judgment 

 may be readily adopted, without disparagement to the English 

 gardens, as the two styles of gardening are, in my opinion, essen- 

 tially different. 



When I speak of the English style of gardening, I mean only 

 as it is exhibited in the grand and beautiful specimens which 

 Brown, Kent, and a few others, have left us ; not that which, in 

 these latter times, is so often practised in laying out garden 

 grounds in England, and which has as little relation to the truly 

 creative art of gardening, as the pictures of our modern painters 

 have to the works of Raphael. 



Considered with respect to real landscape beauties, picturesque 

 effects, and grand imaginative characteristics, the English garden 

 style is, in the present times, markedly retrograde. When I 

 was in England, in 1817, 1 found the gardens in the new English 

 style, as I met with it, for the most part oppressed with the 

 burthen of their own ornaments. The immense multitudes of 

 plants which, since the commencement of the present century, 



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