FORESTRY 



appreciated by Oliver Cromwell. Soon after the Restoration Charles II 

 not only put the gardens into thorough order, but laid out the Home 

 Park in its present form, planting the great avenues of lime trees that 

 radiated from the centre of the east front of the palace. William and 

 Mary effected many changes in the planting of this park. 117 



Bushey Park has an area of 994 acres, exclusive of the stud paddocks 

 of an additional hundred acres. These paddocks are divided from the 

 park proper by a brick wall, but are in reality a part of Bushey Park ; 

 they are under the separate management of the ' Master of the Horse.' 

 The herd of fallow deer has been recently much reduced, and now 

 numbers about four hundred and fifty. In 1900 part of the Bushey herd 

 was transferred to the Home Park, the average number there being 

 about one hundred and fifty. The red deer of Bushey Park have 

 averaged forty-five for the last few years. 118 Bushey Park has much 

 noble timber, but is chiefly celebrated for its splendid avenue of chestnuts, 

 which is 56 yds. wide, and a mile and 40 yds. long. The Home Park 

 has an area of 752 acres, and is splendidly timbered in parts, many of the 

 trees being fine specimens of limes. 



The only other parks in Middlesex where deer are now to be found, 

 besides those of Bushey and Hampton Court, and a few in the inclosure of 

 Clissold Park, are Victoria Park and Grovelands, Southgate. In Victoria 

 Park is a small herd of from eight to a dozen fallow deer, introduced in 

 1893 or i894. 118a Southgate takes its name from having been the southern 

 entrance to Enfield Chase. Grovelands is the seat of Mr. J. V. Taylor; 

 the well-planted park is 150 acres, whilst the park and adjoining woods 

 are together 310 acres. The number of fallow deer is now about one 

 hundred, nearly fifty were lost in the winter of 19056. They are not 

 really an old herd, being the progeny of a pair given to Mr. Taylor's 

 grandfather in 1840. There are many very finely grown oaks; including 

 several that have girths, 3 ft. from the ground, varying from i 5 ft. 10 in. 

 to 1 4 ft. 7 in. One of them has a spread of branches of 105 ft. A 

 remarkable feature of the woods on this estate is the fact that the common 

 heather or ling grows luxuriantly, though never seen elsewhere in the 

 neighbourhood ; this seems to point to the land being part of the old 

 waste. 119 



The largest oak in this district, known as the Minchenden oak, is at 

 Arno's Grove, Southgate. It is said to have the widest spread of branches 

 of any English oak. This oak, then termed the Chandos oak, is figured 

 in Strutt's Sylvia, and also in Loudon's Arboretum. The latter gives the 

 branch-spread as having a diameter of iiSft., and the girth, one foot 

 from the ground, as 18 ft. 3 in. 120 



Broomfield House, Southgate, was an old hunting-lodge used by 

 James I ; it is surrounded by park-like grounds of 80 acres. 



117 Law, Hilt, of Hampton Court, 3 vols. passim. 



119 From information kindly supplied by Mr. Halliday, Park Superintendent, in Jan. 1907. 

 1191 From information kindly supplied by the Park Superintendent. 

 119 From information kindly supplied by Mr. Taylor. 

 80 Loudon, Arboretum, iii, 1763. 



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