1 82 Hints on Landscape Gardening 



We will, therefore, not linger any time here, but 

 lead the reader quickly to the " Burg " farm by 

 the meadow, where a model farm was not sought, 

 but only a good income. Model farms are no 

 doubt of much public benefit, yet are in them- 

 selves only sacrifices to others whereby satisfac- 

 tory results can be achieved only by means of 

 extremely costly experiments^ which are then 

 imitated by one's neighbors without further test 

 expense, and hence they are the only ones to 

 profit by them. Now, since the artistic purpose 

 of my grounds occasioned quite sufficient outlay, 

 I found myself compelled to limit my endeavors 

 to the establishment of a model park, whose 

 results, of course, as I cannot deny, would not 

 bring in so much money as the lessons of model 

 economy. 



With these observations, dear reader, we have 

 arrived at the sheep farm (j-j-), whose high-bred 

 sheep I was for two years compelled to degrade 

 on account of the unfavorable wool idea of that 

 time ; that is, to make them more lucrative by 

 a coarser but richer wool crop. We come next 

 to the large race-course {t£), the use of which I 

 intend shortly to offer to the "National Asso- 

 ciation for Breeding Fine Horses." It is half a 

 German mile long, one hundred and twenty feet 

 broad, with plenty of room for lopkers-on, and 

 forms a large oval, the interior of which is di- 

 vided into seven separate fields, each planted with 

 different fruit trees. From the heights this pre- 

 sents the view of a colossal star. 



