184 Hints on Landscape Gardening 



at the time of the Thirty Years' War, of which 

 I have kept several coins. This is the only treas- 

 ure which I can boast of having found with all 

 my rummaging in the earth ; on the other hand, 

 that treasure has not failed me which the father 

 bequeathed to his son when he urged him to 

 dig for it round his vineyard, and I therefore 

 recommend the same experiment to every land- 

 owner. 



We return to the castle past the village of 

 Kobeln [ww), which also is inhabited only by 

 garden laborers, along the Neisse, by a road on 

 which, for the greater part, we have not driven 

 before. I must remark once more that we are 

 driving in the opposite direction from that part 

 of the road with which we are already familiar, 

 in order to lay stress on the fact that, with all 

 our various drives and crossings during these 

 days, we have never seen exactly the same pic- 

 ture repeated, and yet have touched at all the 

 chief points, and have omitted nothing but those 

 manifold details which require too much time, 

 those never-ending variations of the inexhaus- 

 tible music of Nature, which are only quite 

 discoverable in all their nuances by the sturdy 

 pedestrian.' 



' I need hardly point out that in the present disposition of the 

 grounds, if the three carriage drives are made entirely in the opposite 

 direction from that here described, an almost wholly new series of dif- 

 ferent views must be presented, although they are formed out of the 

 same materials, as also quite different views may be obtained by short 

 cuts which I have not described. If we add the footpaths as well, eight 

 days would be necessary to know the park from end to end. 



