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Taking the road past the estate offices and the residence of Mr 
Miller, the walls of which were hanging thick with the ruddy 
berries of the Pyracantha, Crategus Pyracantha, the party first 
paid a visit to the home plantation—a mixed wood, chiefly of 
ash, larch, and oak. Here were seen a number of well-grown 
Cedars of Lebanon. One fine tree girthed 10 feet 2 inches, 
and another grand specimen—the largest cedar in the place 
—measured 13 feet in girth at 5 feet up. Arriving at Mr 
Barton’s neat villa-like residence, designed from a photograph, 
taken by Lord Salisbury, of a cottage at Puys, near Dieppe, in 
France, light refreshments were kindly provided for the party ; 
who had also the opportunity here of inspecting one of the 
Marquis’s recently built ‘‘ Richmond” cottages. Hard by is a nice 
avenue leading to the rectory, and down one of its alleys is the 
piggery, where about one hundred swine are kept. Milwards 
Park Wood, of about 360 acres, is planted with oak, now about 
eighty years of age—among them being a few of much older date. 
This, and all the woodlands on the estate are ‘‘cropped” on a 
twelve years’ rotation, and in this way the most is made of the 
timber. Some promising young plantations of larch and oak were 
also seen in this locality—planted out from the home nursery, 
and thriving splendidly. A grand old beech that was seen had a 
girth of 19 feet 6 inches. 
Tue Duke's Drive. 
The Duke’s Drive, as it is called, was the next striking object 
that was inspected and greatly admired. It starts from just 
beyond the flower garden on the south front of the mansion— 
where stand a pair of handsome metal gates and posterns, made 
in Paris, and very richly designed—and stretches away in a 
straight line due south through the park for fully 2 miles. Itisa 
stately avenue, with a broad grassy drive between the trees, of 
the same width as the courtyard in front of the mansion. The 
wide, soft, green turf is bounded by rows of pollarded limes, 
which on the occasion of our visit were in splendid foliage, and 
formed a delightful far-stretching vista, From the top of the 
Duke’s Drive, which was formerly the highway to London, an 
excellent view is obtained of Hatfield. 
Proceeding on our tour of inspection, the Combe Wood was 
found heavily timbered with the finest oak. Indeed, the oak 
woods on this estate probably equal in weight of splendid 
