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Chap. II.
LOUISENLUND.
27
of our “ crack gardens,”—flowers to talk about, and ask
your neighbour if he has got them—Californian annuals
and Orchidaceæ—things without smell, or with a
perfume deleterious to the nerves of those who grow them;
but oleanders, jasmines, myrtles, roses, and auriculas—
flowers of southern climes and the old Dutch school, such
as our great-grandmothers smelt and enjoyed before us.
Never did I visit a church like that of Eckernfiorde,
such an omnium gatherum of fine old monuments of
armed knights and high-born ladies, of burghers and
their too fruitful spouses; never did I yet come across
such keys. Let the Lord Mayor’s mace, let the Oxford
(Christ Church of course) poker-bearers hide their
diminished heads, their weapons of state are very
ramrods in size and ponderosity to the keys borne before us
by a fair flaxen-headed child. Then the queer latticed
pews, some, like sedan-chairs, made to contain one,
others to hold families as numerous as that of Jacob,
piled here, there, higgledy-piggledy, anywhere, and
anyhow: but in one small chapel of this old curiosity
shop—for sacred edifice I cannot term it—hangs a carved
wooden altarpiece of such exquisite beauty as would
turn Veit Stoss himself pale with jealousy, and make
Grinling Gibbons wring his hands in sad despair. I
shall not attempt to portray it; some things must be
seen, felt, and not described. I will only add it is the
work of an unknown artist, a pupil of Hans Brüggemann
of Husum, and grand-pupil, if I may venture to use the
expression, of Albert Dürer himself.
LOUISENLUND.
A two hours’ drive brought us to Louisenlund, the
summer residence of Duke Charles of Holstein-Glücks-
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