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CONTINENTAL GARDENS. 
its flowers falling in garlands over the white 
satiny bark of the wood. 
SCHOENBRUNN. 
Besides this garden, which is dedicated to 
science, there are others in the town of a 
simpler kind, consisting chiefly of promenades 
for the public. Beautiful fresh green lawns 
are to be seen on all hands, with graceful 
figures, planted with Pelargonium Zonule, 
(scarlet Geraniums,) the oldest and commonest 
of our Pelargoniums, contrasting well with 
the green smooth turf, and producing an 
effect which could not be obtained by plants 
more rare or less rustic. Extensive lawns are 
to be seen decorated in this way, on entering 
the imperial grounds at Schoenbrunn near 
Vienna. Dahlias, China asters, and Petunias, 
form masses of blue, rose, white or purple, 
on the verdant carpet, without their colours 
being mixed or confused. Red dahlias are 
separated from the white, and the blue China 
asters are placed at a certain distance from 
those which are of a rose colour ; so that the 
ensemble of the six grass-plots before the 
palace have, with this arrangement of colours, 
a very imposing aspect. Acid to this the two 
jets cVeau, which play so majestically at the 
extremity of the parterre, the weeping willows 
which droop over the basins, and the old vine 
whose leaves entwine the Avhite marble balus- 
trades, and you have a faint idea of Schoen- 
brunn. 
Near this is a modern ruin, in which the 
architect has formed the broken pillars and 
the crumbling arches, so that the parts seem di- 
lapidated by age, their beauties being respected 
by time ; and here, on the surface of the water 
collected among the debris, the Nymphsea 
bears its large broad leaves, and bright 
golden or alabaster flowers. From this, the 
visitor is led along some high and old pali- 
sades to the upper part of the grounds, where 
there is a perfect forest of elms, limes, maples, 
and exotic oaks ; while in another direction 
are magnificent conservatories, and an exten- 
sive menagerie. 
HIETZING. 
From Schoenbrunn to Hietzing, the distance 
is very short. Here is the largest garden in 
Europe, that of Baron Huge! ; it contains 
numerous straight alleys or walks, shaded by 
tropical trees, large New Holland plants, and 
imported conifers, among which the Araucaria 
attains a great size. This department, in 
which the plants are mostly in pots or boxes, 
is surrounded or sheltered by handsome trees 
of an indigenous kind, and the sombre walks, 
which the rays of the sun seldom or never 
penetrate, lead to beautiful lawns or brilliant 
parterres. Amidst the whole, Coboeas, Tpo- 
mceas and Glycines are trained to small cords 
and spread in all directions. Under this 
canopy of leaves and flowers, the flowering 
plants of an extensive garden are daily ar- 
ranged. Pots embedded in moss form sinuous 
lines, either singly or one above another like 
steps. Sometimes they are grouped on stages 
raised in a pyramidal form, or suspended in 
baskets or in pine cones to the trees, or the 
leafy garlands ; the whole are arranged with 
the most artistic nicety in respect to their 
various colours. The houses here are very 
numerous, in which may be seen upwards of 
a thousand species or varieties of heaths ; all 
the known varieties of camellia ; rare or en- 
tirely new coniferse ; besides whole houses 
filled with banksias, proteas, &c. The travels 
of Baron Hugel, and his [recent] high position 
at Vienna, explain the vastness and richness 
of his collections. His orchid house is the 
image of one of those mysterious boudoirs 
that nature conceals in the deep dark forests 
of tropical countries. The scattered light, 
the hot and humid atmosphere, the perfume 
of the plants, the mixture of colours, the 
strange position of those suspended from the 
roof, all tend to make this charming retreat a 
worthy sanctuary of the learned traveller who 
has amassed so much precious spoil. The 
orchids in general grow on old trunks or 
branches of trees ; some are grown in pots, 
others are suspended in baskets of various 
kinds and forms. Laelias, Stanhopeas, Oncid- 
iums and Cypripediums, mingle their sweet 
perfumes. Iledysarum gyrans, placed in the 
midst of foreign genera, has its two folioles 
constantly in motion, and bending before the 
largest which remains still ; while the Dioncea 
musciptda spreads its leaves, but waits in vain 
for the insects of its native country, which 
have not followed it in its exile. 
Besides the garden of Baron Hugel, there 
is nothing to be seen of any note at Hietzing, 
unless it is the miniature garden of Dr. Haike, 
which is laid out with great taste. It consists 
of some clumps of plants grown on a fine 
green lawn, with some trees, from whose 
branches are suspended small baskets filled 
with various flowers. There is also a rustic 
pavilion at the end of the garden, and an 
.iEolian harp, whose melodious tones astonish 
the visitor, who vainly tries to find out the 
cause of the sweet harmony. Dr. Haike has 
a good collection of Petunias, with flowers so 
large, as to be too heavy for the stems ; but 
the wind which made the JEolian harp 
vibrate, had removed many of the broad 
corollas of the Petunias ; a pleasure for one 
sense, and a privation for another. It is thus 
human life is made up ; happiness without 
mixture does not belong to it. 
