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and west from Lyndhurst. Our drive, however, represented a 
circuit of more than double that distance before we reached Mark 
Ash. A good deal of walking was also accomplished, with Mr 
Lascelles at the head of the party, examining old and new planta- 
tions, admiring the notable trees of the Forest, and the splendid 
sylvan scenery. As pointed out by Mr Lascelles in his report, 
—how impossible it is to hope that woodlands open to cattle and 
horses can reproduce themselves,—we soon had a striking instance 
of it brought under our notice. On one side of the Forest road 
the unenclosed oak saplings had every leaf eaten off them ; while 
on the other, where they had been protected by natural thickets of 
thorns, amid which the seed had fallen, they were pushing their 
way upward in a vigorous manner, and promising in due time, if 
they escaped injury from the ravages of browsing stock, to become 
goodly trees of the Forest. 
But first, it should have been said, that at a short distance out of 
Lyndhurst a halt was called to enable us to visit the beautifully- 
wooded policies of Cuffnells, which was formerly the property of the 
Rose family, of which Lord Strathnairn was a distinguished repre- 
sentative. It is now in the possession of Mr Reginald Hargraves, 
who takes much interest in the numerous varieties of fine Conifers 
and hardwoods with which the policies abound. Cuffnells had twice 
the honour of a visit from George III.—in 1801 and 1804. The park 
is heavily timbered, and among the notable trees observed in our 
quick run through a part of it was a grand evergreen oak, Quercus 
Ilex, which girthed 11 feet 6 inches at 5 feet up. Down in a 
shady dell, where many fine specimens of ornamental Conifers 
were seen, there was a grand Wellingtonia about 80 feet high, 
and splendid examples of Abies Pinsapo, Sequoia sempervirens, 
and Pinus imsignis. A Douglas fir, 81 feet high, girthed 10 
feet 5 inches; and the oaks and beeches were remarkably fine 
trees. 
Driving through the green lanes of the old Forest, where small 
herds of the hardy Forest ponies were everywhere grazing, we were 
anon introduced to the celebrated Knightwood Oak—the Monarch 
Oak of the New Forest—which reigns in stately grandeur in an open 
glade in the midst of a fine plantation of thriving Scots firs, planted 
in 1863. This magnificent tree, which had been pollarded in its 
youth, girthed 19 feet 9 inches at 5 feet up. The bole was about 
15 feet in height, and from it sprang seven gigantic straight limbs 
rising high in the air, and two great horizontal arms, carefully 
