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This avenue, which now reaches from the Brentford Gate to the 
Isleworth Ferry Gate, once extended apparently to the mound in 
the S.W. corner of the Queen’s Cottage Grounds where, in the 
evenings, with a concourse of nobility and gentry. Stars and 
ribbons and garters glistened on the eye in uninterrupted succession. 
No music exhilarated the company, but the translucent stream of 
old Father Thames glided by with an equable and enviable placidity. 
All that gay and bustling scene, like a meteor shooting across the 
heavens, has vanished.” 
years. Much of the old walk was found to have been filled to a 
depth of 18 inches with a coarse shingle and sand. This was put 
through a screen, the sand being returned and soil being substituted 
for the shingle. e work was completed in December. 
occasion has been taken to add a selection of the best and most 
distinct of the new rambler roses to the collection planted here. 
Additions to Arboretum—As has been the case now for 
Mr. Forrest is still in, or on the borders ef, China. A very 
charming dwarf rhododendron of his introduction, R. fastigiatum, 
Franchet, flowered during the. year; a species resembling R. 
intrieatum in leaf and in colour of flower but very distinct in the 
long exserted Stamens. It is interesting to note that both at Kew 
and with Mr. J. C. Williams it flowered when only a few inches 
high and within 17 months of sowing the seed—a remarkably short 
