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education here, but Her Majesty generously provides them with 
a neat suit of clothing—Scots plaid for the boys, and a tartan 
dress, with a red cloak, and straw hat with blue ribbons, for the 
girls—and a substantial dinner daily. In addition to a good 
English education, the boys are taught farming and gardening, 
and the girls sewing and the management of domestic affairs ; 
thus qualifying them, as far as possible in early life, for the due 
performance of their duties in the world. 
Tue Prince Consort’s JUBILEE STATUE. 
We now find ourselves emerging on Smith’s Lawn, an open 
plateau of considerable extent, on which has lately been erected 
the magnificent equestrian statue of the late Prince Consort, the 
Jubilee gift of the women of Her Majesty’s Empire. The new 
carriage approach to the statue being yet quite impassable for the 
heavily-loaded carriages, we drove straight on, but had a fine view 
en passant of the beautifully modelled statue, the grand outlines 
of which elicited general admiration, The tablet on the base of 
the statue bears the following inscription :— 
ALBERT, 
PRINCE CONSORT, 
3orn Aug. 26, 1819. Died Dec. 14, 1861. 
This Statue was presented to 
VICTORIA, 
QUEEN AND EMPRESS. 
A token of love and loyalty from the Daughters 
of Her Empire, 
In remembrance of Her Jubilee, 
June 21, 1887, 
And was unveiled here on Monday, May 12, 1890. 
Continuing the drive throigh park and forest scenery of the 
most enchanting character, the beauty, size, and variety of the 
trees, with the lights and shadows playing upon them, was a most 
pleasant sight to behold, and with the poet Spenser in the Faerie 
Queen we praise 
‘* The trees so strait and hy, 
The sayling pine, the cedar proud and tall, 
The vine-propp elme, the poplar never dry, 
The builder oake, sole king of forests all, 
The aspine good for staves, the cypresse funerael.” 
We pass, in the cool valley leading to the lake, through beautiful 
groves of yew and cedar, and under tall Spanish chestnut, 
