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Various well arranged clumps have also been formed and planted ; and al- 

 together this side of the park, with its finely undulating surface and broad 

 glades of grass, begins to assume an interesting and finished appearance. 

 We observed that, in the planting, advantage had been taken to place the 

 clumps around trees which had previously been growing upon the ground, 

 thus giving the whole a more established appearance than it could otherwise 

 have had. On the top of the eminence, or little knoll, just mentioned, we 

 understand that it is purposed to erect some kind of ornamental conserva- 

 tory ; but its shape or construction, we believe, is not yet determined upon. 

 A number of various shaped flower beds have also been formed along the 

 sides of the walks in the finished part of the ground; and we are informed 

 that the whole of the margins of the walks are to be ornamented in this 

 manner, which, when they shall have been completed, and covered with bright 

 flowering plants, cannot fail to produce a charming effect. Before leaving 

 this part of the grounds, we may mention that the palace station, into which 

 the railway from London Bridge is to run, is being formed close on the 

 .western boundary of the park, at a little distance from the palace, between 

 which and the station there is to be a glass covered way, so that the con- 

 tents of the building may be inspected without inconvenience, during all 

 kinds of weather. The railway itself is in a very forward state. 



If we pass down the line of the great central walk which is to lead to the 

 bottom of the park, decorated, as it is intended to be, on the other side, with 

 flowers and shrubs, and alive with fountains and waterfalls, we find great 

 operations going on ; but little here is at present finished. True, broad 

 gravel walks and green sloping banks are beginning to make their appear- 

 ance, and the basins for the great lakes and fountains, on either side of the 

 main walk, are in a comparatively advanced state ; but nevertheless, upon 

 the whole, it is as yet difficult to form a correct idea of the grandeur and 

 magnificence which it is intended that this portion of the grounds, when 

 finished, shall display. Of the kinds of fountains with which the lake are 

 to be furnished, we may mention that the centre column of water will rise 

 two-hundred and thirty feet in height; around that will be four fountains, 

 each one-hundred and twenty feet in height, and these, again, will be sur- 

 rounded by sixteen others, each seventy-two feet in height. Nor is this all ; 

 there are other groups as grand, besides multitudes of smaller jets of a sim- 

 ilar character, which in themselves will doubtless be worthy of Sir Joseph 

 Paxton's experience in such matters. 



On the shores and islands of the lake, at the end of the main central 

 walk, are to be dispersed " models of the extinct and singular monsters of 

 the wealden and neighbouring periods. Huge Chelonians are to bask upon 



