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GLORUP.
Chap. XLVIII.
GLORUP.
August 5th.—We are off for Svendborg this morning,
a drive of sixteen miles, but stop half-way to visit the
manor of Glorup, the country residence of Count Moltke,
famed for its English gardens. English gardens are
to be mistrusted even in Denmark, where the climate
assimilates somewhat to our own. The velvet turf is
always wanting—turf of ages—never to be replaced by
sowings of common grass. Dissect for your amusement
a small die of our finest sheep-fed English sward,
compressed to dwarfdom ; you will find nearly one hundred
varieties of plants in the small square; it is the work,
the progress of years of vegetation, not to be produced
by an annual crop ; added to which, did they possess the
turf itself, the Danes would never understand how to
take care of it, or allow the time necessary to the
gardener for bringing it to perfection.
Glorup is a fine old place, with lime-avenues of half
a mile in length, unrivalled even in Denmark. A
long oblong fishpond, all in character with the
old-fashioned building. As a whole it is beautiful, but
ruined by an Anglomanic taste badly carried out.
The house was built by the celebrated Walkendorf,
minister to Christian IV., and arch enemy of Tycho
Brahe, whose ruin he plotted from the day of the “ dog
scene” in the isle of Hveen. His portrait is in the
village church, together with early tombs of his ancient
house. Stone carvings of mermaids and mermen
support the vaultings of the roof, a strange device, as
these marine monsters were held in the utmost horror
by the Church of old. In the ballad of Agnete, when
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