. An encyclopædia of gardening; comprising the theory and practice of horticulture, floriculture, arboriculture, and landscape-gardening, including all the latest improvements; a general history of gardening in all countries; and a statistical view of its present state, with suggestions for its future progress, in the British Isles. Gardening. Book I. GARDENING IN GERMANY. 45 Esterhazy is Eisenstadt; the palace has lately been improved, and the gardens, which were laid out in 1754 in the French taste, were, in 1814, transforming in the English manner. (Travels in Hungary, 346.) 207. At Dresden
. An encyclopædia of gardening; comprising the theory and practice of horticulture, floriculture, arboriculture, and landscape-gardening, including all the latest improvements; a general history of gardening in all countries; and a statistical view of its present state, with suggestions for its future progress, in the British Isles. Gardening. Book I. GARDENING IN GERMANY. 45 Esterhazy is Eisenstadt; the palace has lately been improved, and the gardens, which were laid out in 1754 in the French taste, were, in 1814, transforming in the English manner. (Travels in Hungary, 346.) 207. At Dresden, the royal and principal private gardens exhibit nothing remarkable in the way of art. They were formed chiefly during the electorate of Frederick Augus- tus, King of Poland, and are remarkably confined, and by no means interesting in detail. The situation and environs of Dresden every one feels to be delightful; but there is perhaps no city of the same rank on the continent equally deficient both in ancient and modern gardens. (Ed. Encyc. art. Landscape Gard.) 208. Prussia. Almost all the geometric gardens of Prussia were formed during the propitious reign of Frederick II. The Thiergarten at Berlin is the most extensive. It is a sort of public park or promenade, on a flat surface, and loose arenaceous soil, intersected by avenues and alleys, pierced by stars and pates d'oye, varied by obelisks and statues, and accommodated with public coffee-houses, sheds for music and rural fetes, and open areas for exercising troops. The ancient gardens of Sans Souci at Potsdam are in the mixed style of Switzer, with every appendage and ornament of the French, Italian, and Dutch taste. Various artists, but chiefly Manger, a German architect, and Salzmann, the royal gardener, (each of whom has published a voluminous description of his works there,) were employed in their design and execution ; and a detailed topographical historyof the whole, accompanied by plans, elevations, and views, has
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