1 86 Hints on Landscape Gardening 



lowed to retain the former Wendish name " Wus- 

 sina" (Wilderness), consists mostly of deciduous 

 trees, up to a very wild part covered with tall firs, 

 which has been given the name of "Wolf's Lair," 

 in honor of the huntsmen. Occasionally we make 

 the place resound at midnight with the Devil 

 music of Weber, which has a doubly gruesome 

 effect in these appropriate surroundings. A forest 

 stream flows through the Wussina, and into the 

 Neisse, which bounds two sides of the grounds. 

 The third boundary is formed by a broad road 

 and a low fence, which the deer can easily leap, 

 as they do not thrive in fenced-in grounds, for, 

 although one of the most delicate of beasts, the 

 gentle deer, it seems, can least of all endure loss 

 of freedom. The terrain is very mountainous, 

 and lonely forest ravines, with deep meadow 

 valleys at the foot and various views toward the 

 " Riesengebirge " from the higher portions, make 

 up the chief characteristics of these grounds. (See 

 Plate XL.) 



A quite different character, on the other hand, 

 is shown in the large deer park, a district for- 

 merly enclosed by a high fence, which it takes 

 six to eight hours to circuit. The enclosure has re- 

 cently been pulled down by my orders and simple 

 canals substituted ; pa^rtly because with such an 

 accumulation of game I lost too much from the 

 poachers, who became very bold in consequence 

 of the light punishment which was imposed when 

 they were caught ; partly because I found that 

 wild animals in a confined space degenerated very 



