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uplands of the open park, and bowl along a well-made drive, 
admiring the splendid views obtained from it of the Castle and a 
wide extent of country stretching far beyond Windsor. Our 
attention is directed as we pass to the Queen’s Jubilee Oak, 
standing a few yards off on the left of the drive. It was planted 
by the Princess Christian, on the 30th December 1887, in com- 
memoration of the Fiftieth Year of Her Majesty’s reign. 
THE WORKSHOPS. 
A little farther on the party had the great privilege of making 
an inspection of the Prince Consort’s Workshops, in which all the 
estate work is executed. They were found to be admirably 
equipped, and commanded general admiration. The steam sawing 
machinery consists of a 14 horse-power steam-engine, a travelling 
saw-bench for heavy timber, a bench for moulding smaller scant- 
lings, a special bench for cutting foreign hard-wood timber, a saw 
sharpener, and a variety of other machines of a useful description. 
In case of need a turbine wheel, worked by water-power from a 
pond close by, can be used. All the machines in the sawmill 
and workshops being at work, they were examined with great 
interest by the company, and the quality of the work they were 
turning out was entirely satisfactory. A clever contrivance for 
hauling the raw logs from the yard into the sawmill, and placing 
them in position on the saw bench by mechanical power, worked 
by the sawing machinery, was much admired. The engine, and 
all the shafts, belts, and pinions for working the saws, are placed 
in a chamber below the floor, so that the greatest safety from 
accident is obtained. The refuse wood and sawdust are almost 
the sole fuel used for the engine, coal being a costly item in this 
southern part of England. 
The buildings comprise an excellent suite of offices, which 
include a clerk of works’ office, a benched carpenter’s shop, a 
blacksmith’s shop, fire-engine house, two wheelwright’s shops, 
mess-room, stabling for twenty horses, storerooms for seasoning 
timber, etc. There are commodious residences for the foreman 
of the Park and the foreman of wheelwrights, and nice cottages 
for three of the carters. From this busy little hive of forest 
industry, all the buildings in the park and forest, the gates, 
fences, roads, rides, deer pens, cattle sheds, and other erections, 
are kept in repair by the staff of workmen regularly employed on 
