200 Foreign Notices : — Germany. 



verns which abound in the surrounding mountains. Immediately after the re- 

 treat of the waters, all the extent of the surface which they covered is put 

 under culdvation, and at the end of a couple of months, the peasants are 

 mowing hay, or reaping millet and rye, in the very spot where, some time before, 

 they were fishing for tench and pike. Towards the end of autumn, and after 

 the rains of that season, the waters return by the same natural channels which 

 had opened a passage for them at the time of their departure." (Jameson's 

 Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, January — April, p. 220.) 



Notes on the Trees, Gardens, Gardeners, Garden Artists, and Garden Authors 

 of Germany. — The oldest palms are in Vienna and Dresden. The Corypha 

 umbraculifera has a head with an enormous circumference. One in Schdnbrunn 

 is nearly as large. There are here, also, Chamae^ rops humilis, Zamia, and 

 Euterpe /jisiformis, which belong to Prince Antoine, and which have grown 

 so high, that they have been obliged to make the house higher. 



It is worthy of remark, that a Baron Dietrich, in Vienna, sent out ships, at 

 his own expense, to Brazil to collect palms, &c., for the emperor ; and such 

 wonderful discoveries were made, that several palms were found from 30 ft. to 

 40 ft. in height, wliich are now exhibited in the Brazil Museum at Vienna ; 

 by which the age of the trees can easily be ascertained, and an idea of tropical 

 vegetation given. 



The oldest orange trees in Germany are at Dresden, and have been there 

 since the time of King Augustus the Great. He was very fond of turnery, and 

 sent for orange trees with very thick stems from Asia ; and, in order to keep 

 them fresh, they were laid in a cellar : after a short time they began to grow ; 

 and they were removed and planted, and grew extremely well. 



The largest and best green-houses in Germany are in the Burg at Vienna : 

 they are 80 ft. high, and 300 ft. long. [According to other accounts these di- 

 mensions are much exaggerated ; but they will no doubt be corrected for us 

 by Baron Jacquin, or M. Charles Ranch.] In the middle there is a space for 

 flowers, in which, in winter, there are several thousand bulbs in flower sent 

 every year from Holland. Once every year there is a fete in this garden, 

 which is called the rose feast. After breakfast the company retire to a ball, 

 where the nobility are seen waltzing surrounded by flowers. 



The best imitation of nature is seen at Schdnbrunn, where, in the new 

 hot-houses, you might fancy yourself in a Brazilian forest. The Calddia and 

 other Jrdideae, Cymbidia, Scitamineae, and Tillandsf<s, grow hanging down 

 from old trees. The ferns grow in deep shade among rocks. This arrange- 

 ment was made by M. Schott, court gardener, who was several years in Brazil, 

 and who has succeeded in giving these plants such a natural appearance. 



Amongst the most remarkable gardens in Germany are those of Laxenburg, 

 Bruck, Cassel, Munich, the new garden at Potzdam, the gardens at Manheim, 

 at Frankfort and the new gardens at Stuttgard which contain 400 acres, and 

 have cost, perhaps, already more than a million of florins. 



Amongst the Hungarian gardens, those that belong to Princess Chrasal- 

 kowitz in Getelo, the Count of Brunswick in Corompa, and Prince Esterhazy 

 at Eisenstadt, Count Szandor, Count Festetits, and several others, are the most 

 worthy of notice. 



In Bohemia, the most remarkable are those of Prince Kinsky, Prince Taxis 

 near Leitmeritz, Count Tuff" near Briin, and Count Sternberg near Pi'aeg, 

 Schdnborn, Szinnen at TchonhofF near Toeplitz, Prince Clari at Toeplitz, 

 and Count Wallis and Count Canal in Prague. 



Amongst the most considerable landscape-gardeners at present in Germany 

 may be reckoned the following : — 



M. Zei/her in Schweitzengen. He has laid out the gardens at Schweit- 

 zengen, Manheim, Carlsruhe, and Baden. 



Riedel. He laid out the park at Laxenburg, and several private gardens 

 about Vienna. 



Lenne at Berlin. He has laid out the gardens at Potsdam and Magdeburg; 

 and we have great expectation from his improvements now making in the park 

 Ht Berlin, known as the Thier Garten. 



