214 OUR WOODLAND TREES. 
wish, within a comparatively short time, to ex- 
plore it from end to end, either on foot or on 
horseback, and to see, during their course, all 
that is most beautiful of the sylvan beauty of 
the forest. To the Corporation of London, ap- 
pointed by Parliament—in conjunction with four 
verderers—the Conservators of Epping Forest, 
has been committed the task of providing for 
the enjoyment of the public in this beautiful 
woodland, by keeping it from further enclosure 
or destruction. It will be the endeavour of this 
body to maintain the wild features of the forest, 
and to do nothing that would tend to give it the 
primness of a park. To drain the ground, for 
instance, as a park is drained, would be to 
destroy the mosses, which give so much beauty 
to all forests and wild woodlands. In the same 
way, the ‘green ride’ will not be a park avenue, 
but a continuous forest bridle-path, with just so 
much of arrangement and continuity as to enable 
it to be followed without difficulty. The course 
of the ride has already been marked out, and 
the principal part of the work to be undertaken, 
to make it what it should be, will consist in 
