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experience gained in his owa little garden at Osborne. Not 

 less activity was displayed by tlieir Eoyal Higbnesses the 

 Princess Mary and the Duke of Cambridge, the latter of whom 

 performed his work in a manner worthy of a stout Engineer. 

 Those who had the good fortune to witness this charming little 

 scene "will not soon forget it." 



The tree planted, the Eoyal party made the tour of the 

 Exliibition tables, and, before quitting the Garden, tlie members 

 of it inscribed their names on illuminated pages prepared for 

 the purpose, — the Prince of Wales on one page ; the Princesses 

 Alice, Helena, and Louisa, aird Prince Arthur, on another ; the 

 Duchess of Cambridge, Princess Mary, and the Duke, on a third. 

 A fourth page, for the Prince of Hesse and Count of Flanders, 

 was signed by their Eoyal Highnesses afterwards. 



Three weeks after the opening. Her Most Gracious Majesty, 

 miudfid. of the expectations she had held out, that she would 

 plant a tree in the Garden, came at an early hour (9 o'clock) 

 on Monday morning, the 24th of June, 1861, and planted 

 another fine Wellinfftonia gigantea, opposite to that planted 

 by the Prince Consort. The trees of Her Majesty and the 

 Prince Consort are carefully protected, and indicated by suitable 

 inscrij^tions. 



Subsequently to this, a Eose Show was held, in July, 

 which was honoured by the attendance of many Eoyal and 

 noble personages, including various members of our own Eoyal 

 FamUy, and the whole of the Ex-Eoyal Family of France, who 

 inscribed their names on an illuminated page. In September, 

 a Daliha Show was held ; and in November, a splendid Fruit 

 and Chrysanthemum Show. The j)ecuniary result of the whole 



