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" After dinner Sir Joseph proposed we should take a stroll about the 
place and after lighting very good cigars in his study we went forth. 
The study had a few bundles of plants as if he had not wholly given up 
his regular work and there hung near the outer door leading to the 
wooded hill a press and also a stout digger which he said Ward of 
Wardian Glass Case fame had given him... We walked through beauti- 
ful paths in these piney woods, Sir Joseph constantly showing us trees 
and shrubs which he had planted; he bought the place on leaving 
Kew twenty years ago and had done all the planting; all his own except 
the original pines and it was wonderful to see what twenty years will 
do in England. Sequoias and Douglas pines and Colorado spruces 
and New England oaks, the rubra and tinctoria and also what ap- 
peared imbricaria; two beautiful patches of Linnaea looked flourish- 
ing and very fine pink Daboecia, which we saw white in the Grasmere 
Garden. He took us to the edge of his land next the Golf course 
where we looked across to the Great Windsor Forest; all the land in 
the region belongs to. St. John's College, Cambridge, a gift from 
.Henry VIII and just now is quite in the fashion, as many new wealthy 
people are coming out from London, which indeed is not to be won- 
dered at, the situation is so beautiful. The paths lead in many 
directions in these perhaps twelve acre grounds and there is a beautiful 
vista from the house looking down a green turf avenue quite a distance. 
When I said I wished I had brought my camera to take such a pretty 
view Sir Joseph urged me to come again and bring the camera, thus 
being as gracious as was Lady Hooker when she expressed regret she 
had not known Mrs. Kennedy was in London that she might have 
had the pleasure of seeing her with us. 
“The maid came to say that Lord Thring and hà daughter had come 
to call but Sir Joseph did not hasten us from our interesting walk, 
but led us to the-end of that path and then we returned to the house; 
in the parlor were several ladies and Lord Thring, a very old looking 
pale faced gentleman seated in a low armchair and not rising when 
shaking hands with Sir Joseph and us. He is a year younger than 
Sir Joseph but has pored over law books instead of much outdoor life. 
I had quite a chat with him on American law, which he has largely 
studied especially of Colonial or rather our Federalist period from 
1790-1810. He has lately been at work on the Laws passed in the 
Commonwealth period which were almost wholly repealed when 
Charles II returned. He also said few people recognized the fact 
