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The chief features of interest on the route through the Forest 
and Great Park on the way to Windsor, are the beautiful views 
of the landscape, of which the opposite illustration gives a good 
idea ; the splendid Avenue, Park, and Plantation Trees, the fine 
examples of choice Conifers, and the wide-spreading shrubberies 
in which the rhododendron is seen in great luxuriance. 
Like many of the woods through which we had passed during 
the day, those whose recesses we were now threading are well 
stocked with a splendid crop of timber, chiefly oaks with tall 
“ oun-barrel” stems of great girth, with all the signs indicative of 
first-class timber. The immense quantity of fine well-grown 
timber trees on the Royal estate, and the excellence of the 
management of the woodlands, were a general theme of remark 
and admiration. It is seldom that so much fine timber is seen on 
any estate in such good condition and nearing its maturity. Here, 
it was quite evident that skilful choice has been made in retaining 
the best trees to form the final crop, producing the high-class 
timber with which the Royal woods abound. 
Many fine specimens of the best kinds of Conifers are noted as 
we wind along through the woodlands. They are generally ina 
vigorous condition, and promise to become worthy fellows to the 
giant hardwoods in the course of another generation or two. 
In a wide open space, lying to the left of our route through the 
forest, the Cumberland Obelisk is seen, around which ivy clings 
more than half-way up the massive column. 
THE RHODODENDRON RIDE. 
By-and-by we enter the famed Rhododendron Ride, adorned 
with immense spreading banks of these beautiful flowering shrubs, 
towering high above our heads on the top of the coaches, 
and when they are in their glory of bloom, in early summer, they 
must present a grand display, worth a long journey to view. 
The Ride extends for about a mile, with the massive banks of 
rhododendrons rising on either side. It was noticed that on every 
open spot, even on the hard surface of the roadway clear of 
the traffic, seedling rhododendrons were springing up literally 
in millions, and threatening to overrun the whole ground, showing 
how well adapted the situation is for the growth of that useful 
shrub. Some of the tallest, straight, well-grown oaks in the 
forest, are seen among and beyond the rhododendrons, and the 
whole neighbourhood of the Ride is full of the finest timber. 
