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arching boughs, as shown in the illustration. On the lawn 
near each of the four corners is a mulberry tree. These are 
said to have been planted by James VI. of Scotland and First 
of England. On the day of our visit they were laden with a 
splendid crop of ripening fruit. In the centre of this shady garden 
is a rustic rock-work fountain; and in the wall at the west end 
of the north arcade is inserted a series of bas reliefs, which 
have a short history attached to them. The Mulberry Garden 
is a favourite resort of the present Marquis, who has a private 
passage leading from it to the mansion-house. The party pro- 
ceeded along the pretty terrace to the conservatories and orchid 
house, which were full of fine plants, all in beautiful order. 
In an interesting walk through the Pinetum, a number of 
splendid examples of Conifers were seen—Cedrus Deodara, Abies 
grandis, A. nobilis, A. Morinda, A. Douglasii, A. cephalonica, 
Cryptomeria japonica, Sequoia sempervirens, Wellingtonia gigantea, 
and others, being large and handsome specimens, and standing on 
a smoothly mown lawn, they were greatly admired. <A very fine and 
well-furnished specimen of the Redwood, Sequoia sempervirens, 
66 feet high, had a girth of 11 feet 7 inches at 5 feet up, and was 
considered by many to be among the finest trees of its kind in 
Britain. On the way to the Kitchen Garden a fine example of a 
larch, with a tall, straight, clean bole, was measured, and found to 
be 9 feet 6 inches in girth. 
The Kitchen and Fruit Garden lies beyond the public road that 
skirts the west side of the pleasure grounds, at a short distance from 
the mansion-house. It extends to about 13 acres, heavily cropped 
with vegetables and fruit for the supply of a large establishment. 
Many of the fruit trees were literally borne to the ground by the 
weight of the loads they were carrying, the season being as 
favourable here as at other places we had visited for the production 
of fine fruit. A special feature which attracted much attention 
was the immense number of strawberry plants grown in pots 
for early forcing, in the cultivation of which Mr Norman 
is famed. A run through the extensive ranges of plant, fruit, 
and forcing houses, all full of well-grown plants or splendid 
crops of fruit, completed our inspection of this extensive and 
well-managed garden, 
On the way to the station a peep was had into the parish church 
of Hatfield, a fine structure dedicated to St Etheldreda, where was 
seen a beautiful and elaborate marble monument to Sir Robert 
