I20 Hints on Landscape Gardening 



our rulers still seem to ignore, not exactly to the 

 profit of their country. 



Even if I felt free to take the view that I did, 

 it was still a question whether, all things con- 

 sidered, I could have expected, with so few diffi- 

 culties, such great advantages as I found here. 



The drawbacks were : — 



( 1 ) A generally sandy region covered for the 

 greater part with pine forests. 



(2) A large area of poor soil in the territory 

 destined for the park. 



(3) The necessity for tremendous preliminary 

 work before I could be in a position even to be- 

 gin the new grounds. 



(4) The necessary acquisition of more than 

 two thousand acres of land that I did not own. 



The advantages were as follows : — 



( 1 ) A picturesque " lie " of the ground every- 

 where, and a great variety of mountain and valley 

 and the prospect of the Silesian and Oberlausitz 

 Mountains. 



(2) The presence of a considerable stream 

 which flows through the land which is to form 

 the park and makes, for some distance from the 

 banks, a rich, though narrow, pasture ground. 



(3) Many hundreds of the most beautiful old 

 trees, which were already scattered throughout 

 this territory. 



(4) The ease with which — as soon as the 

 enclosure of the above-mentioned two thousand 

 acres of land, recently purchased, had been com- 

 pleted — I could extend operations as far as re- 



