128 Hints on Landscape Gardening 



and potters' ovens are smoking day and night, 

 and their pillars of fire with the approach of 

 dusk light up the whole region every evening. 

 Beyond is an expanse of fields following the 

 course of the river, dotted with old oaks and 

 other deciduous trees, and this part of the pic- 

 ture is finally framed in by forests ; only the blue 

 tops of the Landskrone, Tafelfichte, and Schnee 

 Koppe can be discerned above the sea of dark- 

 green foliage. On the right, finally, on the other 

 side of the Neisse, spread wide meadows, shaded 

 by tall trees, over which rises the fir-covered 

 mountain of the glassworks of Wolfshayn, the es- 

 tate of the famous jurist and philosopher Gravell. 

 Turning around, one sees only the wavy lines of 

 the dense black forest, dwindling to the farthest 

 horizon, unbroken save here and there by the 

 gleaming tips of a few distant church spires. 



On this spot now stands a ruined pavilion, and 

 in ancient times stood, according to the legend, 

 a castle or watch-tower, of which there are still 

 some remains of ruined walls and cellars, such as 

 may be found in the neighboring fir woods of 

 Keula. A rather remarkable occurrence during 

 the war threw a new light on this town, which, 

 however, like an ignis fatuus, disappeared as 

 quickly as it came. One day a Russian staff offi- 

 cer appeared at the house of the Burgermaster 

 of the town, and springing from his foaming 

 Cossack steed, asked for some man who knew 

 the neighborhood well, to conduct him in a 

 search which was of great importance to him 



