GARDENS OLD AND NFW. 



The fact is that there is 

 room, and an abundance of 1% 

 for every kind of gardening 

 at Chats\vorth ; room in par- 

 ticular for the line of limes, 

 which were fine trees when 

 Dr. Johnson enjoyed their 

 shade 1 16 years ago; and 

 beyond the end of this line 

 are three trees of peculiar 

 interest, known as the Royal 

 Trees. Of these, one, an 

 oak, was planted by the 

 Queen when she was 

 Princess Victoria, in 1832. 

 The planter was then twelve 

 or Thirteen years old, the tree 

 unless, indeed, it was a case 

 of sowing an acorn, which is 

 hardly likely may have been 

 about the same age ; and now 

 the planter, held in far more 

 honour than any living man 

 or woman, is well stricken in 

 years, anJ the tree is in its 

 forest youth. Another, planted 

 on the same day by the 

 Duchess of Kent, is a Spanish 

 chestnut, and the other is a 



sycamore-, planted eleven years later by Prince Albert, who 

 had then been Prince Contort for some two years. Room 

 is tlit-re also for landscape gardening, and for the arrange- 

 ment of woxls and views and vistas upon a really colossal 

 scale. 



The predominant features, we are inclined to say, of 

 Chatsworth are those straight, broad, and uncompromising 

 paths, the statues, and the fountains, of which several views 

 are given. Greatest amongst them is the Emperor Fountain, 

 fed as the others are from the lake 4Ooft. above, and appearing 

 in our picture as a parallelogram of gleaming water. But the 

 gardens are full of other points of interest also. Look, for 



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example, at the charming Ring Pond, with its rude boulder in 

 the middle, its lilies in the water, its trim yew hedges, its 

 surrounding sentinels o" columnar yews. Or stand by the 

 entrance to the West Terrace, with its ironwork gates, low in 

 height, but of fine workmanship, and note tlu- quaint 

 statues of animals, especially the boy on the lion. Note also 

 the same statues, in the Lower West Garden, from another 

 point of view, and see hiw fine a view of the distance and of 

 the lawn below is to be obtained from the West Terrace. 

 Observe also the Italian Garden, excellent of its kind ; and the 

 French Garden, highly characteristic, with its statues on high 

 pillars, and the pillars themselves wreathed in creepers and 



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