156 Hints on Landscape Gardening 



see the ground-plan D). From the salon in the 

 middle of the first orangery (i) looking beyond 

 a large bed of rhododendrons, we have a view 

 of an avenue of limes a hundred years old, about 

 a thousand paces long, and in winter, on both 

 sides of the salon, there are also two avenues of 

 orange trees to be seen, which will be termi- 

 nated by palm houses. From here one passes (2), 

 through a flower house in the form of a gallery, 

 into the hothouses. From this gallery we see on 

 the left the winter garden (3), and on the right 

 a landscape, not without charm, even in winter, 

 of which the features are the lake Lucie, the 

 town, and the mountains rising beyond. Next 

 we enter the hothouses (4), in front of which is 

 the flower nursery surrounded by trellis walls (5), 

 at the side tlie large kitchen garden (6), then 

 the hotbeds (7), the garden courtyard, the gar- 

 den inspector's house (8), and the second orange 

 house (9), as well as the concealed places (10 

 and 11), where everything is kept, which, al- 

 though useful and necessary, presents nothing 

 agreeable to the eye. All the sheds and out- 

 houses, etc., are collected here, and finally a large 

 space (12) at the end of the garden, near the 

 stables of the garden horses, which is used solely 

 for the compost heaps. This arrangement makes 

 it possible to keep the vegetable garden itself 

 always clean and elegant, and to use the shelter 

 of its walls for a sunny promenade. After inspec- 

 tion of these features we pass the " pleasure- 

 ground," close behind the house, and drive 



