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he still adhered much = strait walks with high clipt iy эе a were ed арт great 
lines ; the rest he diversified by wilderness, and wit groves of oak, though 
still within тайге hedges hg hi n saway hehe iater] "footing, 
he ventured farther, and in the Roya al Garden at Richmond, dared to introduce 
cultivated fields, and even morsels of a forest к nce, 
Bridgeman introduced the sunk fence *as a boundary instead of 
walls and other opaque partitions." 
* Here,” says Scott (р. 41), “ іп the garden ve to their lodge, took place 
the interview x tween Queen Caroline and Jeannie Deans, after z: rj ey on 
foot from Edinburgh to plead for the life of s Stil Effie, which has been so 
graphically and so touchingly described by Sir Walter Scott in his ‘Heart of 
Midlothian.’ 
e is some reason to think that George III. contemplated at first 
making the Richmond Gardens a royal residence. In the Kew Museums 
there is a manuscript plan entitled “ set ae with the pro- 
posed alterations, December 10, 1764. e scheme, which was 
probably the work of Brown (1715-82), 8 the whole of the Deer 
Park. It eliminates all the work of em n Caroline, and redisposes the 
ground in the мочен а ndscape fashio 
George III. certainly resided at Riehmond or Ormond n as it 
was apparently indifferent tly called, in the early part of his 
o о gives some particulars of the local history ‘of this date. 
He was a gardener ‘in the Royal Gardens at Richmond, then under the 
* Superintendence of Mr. John Haverfield, who was recommended to His 
* Majesty King George IIT. by Lord Bute ” (p. 21). 
Before this E had been— 
sa Richm Lodge, sete see the beautiful display of т given by His 
Ма ty King G eorge IIT. to Christian VII. King of Denmark, in honour of the 
nuptials UT of his sister, ths M еа v» tilda ^id the Danish King 
stly exhibited upon a large 
pond, pear the Lodge, which was fall of old: Ard iit other fishes" (р, 19). 
A few other facts may be tet to illustrate a part of the history of 
Kew, of which so little is known 
“During my stay in the Royal Gardens, I had frequent opportunities of seeing 
the King, who at e time resided in a domestic manner at Ormond Lodge. е 
т 5 walk t whee: we were at work, and occasionally ask us questions.” 
p. 26). 
“Very near ы таз а тез flower garden in which the Queen took 
particular i el I remember assisting Ramus, the Queen's Page, €— some 
tulip sg (a кораб Her Majesty was particularly fond of) under her immediate 
direction all tra is garden have long been swept md. After the death 
but 
of the Queen' s Ar uem [n 78], his Majesty retired to Kew ” (p. 2 
All trace of Queen Caroline's occupation was s eventa obliterated. 
Scott (p. 42) quotes from Crisp’s * Richmond ” 
“A few are — -— ссе of George ye the public, rt especially of 
ee. Kew. n bea š Fe н to learn that it was His Maj ys intention to 
hole the uildin iid ii ets VÉ t e 
for cattle, which intention was ашу 6i fried out Cien: Js ° гаи 
Crisp, however, quoted by Scott (р. 44), says :—- 
“ It was in the year 1770 that the ч, or hamlet of West Sheen, with the 
and e 
ancient реет таль the entrance to, or rather part of, the priory, an eighteen 
. houses with large р of ground pirum were M down, and the entire site 
converted into par k or poik ure land, as we now see 
_Не continues : — 
`í 
«о е чн кы aU i gr oY 
numerous and singular buildings wth which Quee ol Gaaga П . had at n 
