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published in 1903 and illustrated by numerous photographs from 
his own hand. He also published numerous notes on his plants 
from time to time in the Gardeners’ Chronicle. In addition to his 
trees and shrubs he had also a considerable collection of interesting 
plants under glass. 
y and reserved, Lord Annesley was never so happy as when 
he was among his plants. He took little pleasure in London life 
and was always impatient to get back to Castlewellan. e liked 
to visit Kew and received a considerable amount of help from it 
with regard to botanical questions in connection with his book. 
te will long be remembered as an excellent landlord of an 
extensive property and as the creator of a magnificent collection of 
ligneous plants. 
Alteration of walks.—The fence which for fifty years had separated 
the “ Botanical Garden” from the “ Pleasure Grounds” or 
Arboretum was removed in 1895. A path on each side of it had 
been necessary so long as the two sections of Kew remained 
distinct, but when the fence was taken down these two walks, 
where they ran parallel and within a few yards of each other, lost 
their meaning, except that one was used as a service road for carts, 
&c. From the landscape point of view, also, this duplication of 
walks was wrong. During the past winter that section of the 
service road reaching from near the Victoria gate to the point 
where it joined the road leading to the Stable Yard has been 
broken up and will disappear. The path for visitors which went 
behind the Temple of Bellona and ended at the Unicorn Gate has 
been brought in front of the Temple, and now ends close to the 
Victoria Gate. It may be of interest to mention that this path is a 
portion of the ancient “ Stafford Walk,” made, so tradition says, 
by the Staffordshire Militia about 1770. It commenced at the 
north end of the Rhododendron Dell, passed through the “ Hollow- 
Walk Wood” across the Sion Vista, and ended, as already stated, 
where the Unicorn Gate now stands. 
Berberis Dell.—Kew, in general, is so flat that such diversities of 
level as it possesses (and they are all of artificial origin) acquire a 
peculiar value in the landscape. Next to the Lake and the Rhodo- 
dendron Dell, the most important excavation in the Gardens is the 
Berberis Dell. Originally it was a pit from which gravel was 
taken to cover the paths. The idea of developing it into a garden 
for shrubs was entertained as early as 1869. e depression was 
considerably enlarged during the next five or six years, and by 1876 
it had been brought to its present conformation and planted with 
trees and shrubs belonging to the early Natural Orders.. The 
species of Berberis being the most numerous, it came to be called, 
Dell.” It is one of the most 
flagstaff’ stands—once the site of, the Temple of Victory. A new 
entrance to the Dell has recently been made from the Kew Road 
