42 ‘‘GREEN DALE CABINET.” 
a front view of the tree from the opposite side, but, like the second 
of the series, leaving off the branches and the foliage. Through 
the artificial arched opening a man on horseback is exhibited as 
riding from the spectator towards the mass of forest trees forming 
the park scenery in the background of the picture. At the top 
of the plate are the following lines from Chaucer :— 
“Go the Oke | that hath so long a norishing 
Fro the time that it ginnith first to spring 
And hath so long a life, as we may see ; 
Vet at the laste, wastid ts the Tree. 
Chaucer.” 
At the bottom are the words—“ Zhe Green-Dale Oke near Welbeck, 
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The fifth and last of the series of etchings (which I give 
upon the next page) is, perhaps, the most interesting, giving, as 
it does, a picture of the entire tree with all its upper branches 
and foliage, through the arched opening in whose trunk a 
carriage—one of the lumbering vehicles of the period, with 
the tires of its massive and clumsy wheels, and the front of 
the carriage itself, studded with large nails—drawn by six horses, 
is being driven towards the spectator. Its noble driver (as 
I imagine him to be, to bear out the tradition) is seated on the 
box, with reins in his left, and whip in his right hand, and wears a 
cocked hat. On one of the leaders is a postilion, also furnished 
with a whip. In the background is park scenery with trees—one 
of them (that to the right) being evidently the “ small Oke 4 feet 
diameter” marked upon the plan. At the top of the plate are 
the words ‘‘ Una Memus,’ and at the bottom ‘*‘ Zhe Green-Dale 
Oke near Welbeck, 1727.” 
From wood cut out in forming the arched opening through the 
trunk of this wonderful tree, and from some of its branches, the 
‘« Green Dale Cabinet ”—one of the treasured possessions of the 
Duke of Portland—at Welbeck, was made, as I haye stated, for 
the then owner of the place, the Lady Henrietta Cavendish Holles, 
Countess of Oxford and Mortimer. Of it I give the accompanying 
