It was our intention to have collected from these works, the characteristic particulars of the domestic and rural economy of France ; but we have already far exceeded the limits of this chapter of our article. We shall only there fore add, that the Grecian style is employed not only in France, but every where on the Continent, to the exclusion of every other manner of building.
The English style appears to have been introduced in Germany about the same period as in France, and, as might be expected, by private individuals rather than royal courts. The fist example was a small spot, Garten der Schwob ber, laid out about the year 1750, with winding walks, seats, and a rich collection of rare plants and shrubs, in the neighbourhood of Pyrmont, in Westphalia. The fine mountains which skirt the valley of Pyrmont, form pictu resque distances to venerable exotics of different species, which form now the chief remains of this interesting parent of the new style in Germany. The next instance we shall notice, is a splendid example exhibited by Field Marshal Lacy, at Dornbach, near Vienna, and which would proba bly originate in the family connections of that warrior in England. It was laid out by the German architect Fischer, and an English gardener Morrison, between the years 1766 and 1770, at an expellee of half a million of florins. Its picturesque views and extensive prospects are much and deservedly admired; hut on the whole, as an English gar den, it owes much more to nature than to art. Lacy's ex ample was soon followed by a number of proprietors near Vienna ; and an account of various English gardens is to be found in the guides to that city and its environs. The imperial chateau and gardens of Laxembourg is an exten sive example of art applied to the embellishment of grounds in the English manner ; but rather in the manner of Brown than of Kent. The Prater, situated in an island on the Danube, in part an artificial grove, and in part an exten sive natural forest of venerable oaks and thorns open to the public, is certainly the most natural and picturesque public park in Europe ; as the grounds of Schoenbrunn are the most majestic and extensive example of the ancient style of gardening.
There are now specimens of Enlist] gardening, more or less extensive, in the capital towns of every state in Ger many; but, with a very few exceptions, they are of a very inferior description, and such as, when the novelty of the style has passed' away, are not at all likely to perpetuate this taste in these countries. From the arid soil and limit ed extent, result bad turf, and an air of constraint ; and from too many buildings and walks, a distracting bustle and confusion. They are crowded with winding sanded paths,
continually intersecting each other, little clumps, and use less seats or temples, and very frequently resemble more the attempts of mimics or caricaturists, than imitators of our taste. In short, the defects of the English style in eve ry country, are more frequently copied than the beauties ; which, we presume, arises from the circumstance of few of those who lay out such gardens having had a proper idea of the end in view in forming them, viz. a painter-like effect in every case, where it does not interfere with utility, or some other preferable beauty ; and, in many cases, an entire allusion to natural scenery. It is difficult for a per son of limited education and travel to form a distinct idea of what English gardens really are. The foreigner can sel dom divest himself of the idea of a very limited and com pact space as requisite for this purpose ; the reverse of which is the case with all our best scenes, both of ornamen tal, horticulture, and picturesque beauty. The English gardens in the vicinity of Dresden, Brunswick, Ham burgh, Prague, Toplitz, Ltipsic, and other places, have given rise to those remarks, in which even those profess edly English in Prussia, might be included. There are some exceptions which might be pointed out at Cassel, Stutgard, (for views of these gardens, see l'Almanach du Jardinage.) Weimar, (see Description du Parc de Weimar, et du Jardin de Tieffurth, Erfurt, 1797,) the park of Fur stenstein, near Breslaw, and the walk at Munich, laid out by Count Rumford, may be referred to as less obnoxious to our general remark.
The principal examples of the new style in Prussia are the royal gardens at the summer residence of Charlottcn burg near Berlin, begun by Frederick the Great, but chief ly laid out during the reign of Frederick William II. They are not extensive, and are situated on a dull sandy flat, washed by the Spree ; under which unfavourable cir cumstances, it would be wonderful if they were very at tractive. In one part of these gardens, a Doric mauso leum, of great beauty, contains the ashes of the much la mented queen. A covered avenue of Scotch firs leads to a circle of the same tree, 100 or 150 feet in diameter. In terior circles are formed of cypresses and weeping willows, and within these, a border of white roses and white lilies, candidum). The form of the mausoleum oblong, and its end projects from this interior circle directly oppo site the covered avenue. A few steps descend from the entrance to a platform, in which, on a sarcophagus, is a re clining figure of the queen : a stair at one side leads to the door of a vault containing her remains.