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Updated: June 10, 2025
It was a lovely place by nature, with no end of capabilities for the practice of the Prince's pleasant faculty of landscape-gardening, with which he had already done wonders in the circumscribed grounds of Buckingham Palace and the larger field of Windsor.
There is no walking here, excepting in the pleasure-ground, where all my grandfather's landscape-gardening has been cut up so as to be a mere vexation to her. The people round are said to be savage and disaffected, and the quarter of a mile between the park and the village is subject to miners going home. They did once holloa at me, and orders were issued that I should walk no more.
Week by week during his tour, Pueckler addressed to his faithful Lucie long, confidential letters, filled with observations of the manners and customs of the British barbarians, together with minute descriptions of his adventures in love and landscape-gardening.
I hope the charming Lady Charlotte had better cause to be satisfied with him. Towards the end of December, his Highness's head-gardener, Rehde, a very important functionary at Muskau, arrived in London to be initiated into the mysteries of English landscape-gardening.
Elsewhere the high-road has usurped its place, and you have the privilege of the path without its charm. Along our eastern cliffs it runs for some miles in the rear of beautiful estates, whose owners have seized on it, and graded it, and gravelled it, and made stiles for it, and done for it everything that landscape-gardening could do, while leaving it a footpath still.
In the extensive grounds surrounding the palace, landscape-gardening and modern floral effects have been finely carried out by a skilled foreigner, who had been imported for this special purpose from Versailles. The variety of fruit was really remarkable, embracing orange, lemon, banana, fig, peach, and pear-trees, and a great variety of choice flowers were in their glory.
The bearing of all this upon their respective history will be obvious. Here again we have the origins of the vivid contrast of the English or so-called naturalistic style of landscape-gardening with the more formal French tradition.
We learn from the history of art at how late a period this passion for botanical collections was laid aside, and gave place to what was considered the picturesque style of landscape-gardening. The collections, too, of foreign animals not only gratified curiosity, but served also the higher purposes of observation.
I shall note down every individual creature I see! I say! you are sure it is not a sham waterfall or Temple of Tivoli? 'It would please the choir boys and G. F. S. girls quite as much, if not more, in that case, said Miss Mary; 'but you need not expect that, Nuttie. Landscape-gardening is gone by. 'Even with the county people? said Nuttie. 'By at least half a century, said Mr.
In the course of our discussion, my young friend took occasion to quote some passages from a writer who has been supposed to have well treated this theme. "There are, properly," he writes, "but two styles of landscape-gardening, the natural and the artificial.
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