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stone, after having had a good deal of trouble 

 over arranging the dispute, gives us his opinion 

 that there were faults on both sides. 



It is understood that in the management of 

 the Gardens there has been sometimes a certain 

 friction between the demands of a scientific 

 establishment and of a scene for popular recrea- 

 tion. But these two ideas seem now fairly har- 

 monised. With the exception of isolated pene- 

 tralia, the Gardens are open from 10 or 12 A.M. 

 till sunset, and on Sunday afternoons. This 

 was one of the first of our public institutions 

 to be thrown open on Sunday, by the influence, 

 it is said, of Prince Albert prevailing over 

 the Sabbatarian austerity that dominated Mrs. 

 Proudie's generation. 



As the Kew Gardens flourished, those of 

 Richmond had withered away. The royal 

 pleasure-grounds on that side were turned into 

 George III.'s model farm, then into a park, which 

 has become a golf-course and a recreation-ground, 

 though it was only the other day that its quasi- 

 public character came to be fully recognised by 

 a foot-bridge thrown over the muddy moat 

 cutting off this enclosure from the river-bank. 

 The site of Richmond Lodge is approximately 



