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OcTOBER 31, 1874.] 
SUPPLEMENT TO THE GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 3 
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COTTAGE IN THE HOME PARK. 
0} acme Great Park, and in Mr. J. C. 
Morton’s Report on the Royal Farms (Agri- 
cultural a! 1862 
is tiene for our present purpose to 
a Terrace Garden, the Home 
Park, the Kitchen Garden at Frogmore, the 
Great Park and Virginia Water. 
THE TERRACE GARDEN mibe sunk flower 
garden, an en rae 3 3—4 acres, me 
was constructed in 182 4. 12—15 fee 
below the terrace, man s pa ity iied by an 
e flat roof of which forms a em 
allude 
y be imagined, the view from the 
the 1 flower arden and the slopes beyond is 
beautiful, In connection with the Castle. tt 
ae 
may here be mentioned, on 
"a Tighe and P that as late as the 
ittle viney ma etieted on 
the outside of the 
of the Castle. T ke Ca stle itself stand 
ground, which slopes on the one ide down 
the Thames, and on the other el ard the Ho 
PARK. In this latter portio the Ao ih 
are the ‘ seins? beautifully ona, pea with 
he? kept ngs eee nds springy t . Here, 
ockery e p. 4), with a falling cascade, 
pidas a little too rigid and artifici al to pl pane 
t 
was, we believe, a favourite one v he P iei 
e 
THE HOME PARK is studded her and there 
bye avenues of ea with other fine trees, 
two re ably Aiie evergreen 
Ones whe ans edt Over "330 feet in cir- 
og ipai of | cumference (see p. 8). 
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ADELAIDE COTTAGE, FROGMORE, 
As to which was the 
veritable “ Herne’s Oak” there has been much, 
we think, vain pea ea Very likely Shak- 
speare had no one k in particular in hi 
mind, and unsuppo yrted tradition in such a 
matter is of little weight. Sufficient for us t 
knov oe eer was Jak, that several 
f e dat sec exist, and that the one tra- 
ditionally said to be the tree he intended was 
wn in 1865, er its site is now marked 
y ar. Whatever we may think of the 
dret 9 se ee he the scene exists still—there is 
the Park, there are the “Fairy pits,” there is 
aot riv t ph are Datchet Mead and Datchet 
The genius and the humour of the great 
sie ee have stamped on these paon an impress 
vn affects Se aes us to amuch greater 
t than e more pene yet more 
historie Kunnymede itself 
In ark, too, is the elegant little 
retreat AE LS eake Piss: ed illustrated above, 
with a pretty garden surrounding it. Close by 
