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most central to the royal residences. 

 They at the same time recommended 

 the breaking up of the kitchen garden at 

 Kew, and annexing the ground to the 

 Eoyal Botanic Garden there, which has 

 also been completely remodelled : this also 

 has been done with the best effects. The 

 almost useless establishments at Cran- 

 bourne Lodge, Windsor, Buckingham Pa- 

 lace, Osborne, &c, were recommended to 

 be demolished, and that at Cumberland 

 Lodge to be dismantled, saving only the 

 large vinery in which is the celebrated 

 vine — although a cutting taken from the 

 large vine at Hampton Court is in every 

 respect its rival. 



The gardens at Hampton Court have 

 since been let on lease, and the whole 

 gardening establishment of royalty con- 

 centrated in that at Frogmore. 



To those of our readers who know 

 something of the locality, and who may 

 not have had the satisfaction of seeing 

 these splendid new gardens, we may ob- 

 serve that they are not situated within 

 the Frogmore Lodge grounds, occupied 

 by her Royal Highness the Duchess of 

 Kent, but in a field considerably to the 

 south, and formerly constituting a part 

 of Windsor Park. They are now about 

 being enclosed within the park by the 

 removal of the public road to Windsor 

 from Datchet, Staines, &c, to a line of far 

 greater interest and beauty, although, 

 from the former point, somewhat more 

 circuitous. By this judicious arrange- 

 ment our beloved sovereign has the en- 

 joyment of a private park around her 

 royal residence, in which are placed all 

 those domestic appendages which every 

 proprietor of land she reigns over has, or 

 wishes to have, around his mansion, and 

 of which the garden is not the least im- 

 portant in their estimation. 



By a parliamentary return published in 

 1849, it appears that the expense of con- 

 structing this new garden was estimated 

 at £44,962, 6s. 3d., viz.— 



Ground-works, . . . £1,000 0 0 

 Garden-walls, and other general 



works, .... 9,332 6 11 

 Building gardener's house, pine 



pits, forcing-houses, stables, and 



sheds, .... 17,906 16 8 

 Metallic hothouse, . . 8,921 16 9 

 Hot-water apparatus, . . 3,908 13 3 



Carryforward, £41,069 13 7 



Brought forward, £41,069 13 7 

 Building a tank near Windsor 



Castle for a supply of water to 



the garden, . . . 1,745 5 3 

 Other expenses connected with 



building, &c, . . . 1,028 7 6 



Plans and superintendence, . 1,1181911 



Total, . £44,962 6 3 

 From this was deducted for old 

 material, &c, arising from 

 the sale of Kensington kit- 

 chen garden, &c, . . 3,422 17 2 



First cost of Frogmore garden, £41,539 9 1 



Since that time considerable additions 

 have been made, and are still in progress, 

 which, it is probable, will exceed the sum 

 deducted above, and may raise the total 

 expense of these gardens, up to the pre- 

 sent time, to perhaps £50,000 in round 

 numbers — a sum by no means extrava- 

 gant for such an undertaking. 



The following brief description of this 

 garden is taken from notes made on the 

 spot a few weeks ago, when we spent a 

 day with our old and much valued friend 

 Mr Ingram, the excellent superintendent, 

 whose modesty is only equalled by the 

 great ability he has displayed in every 

 department under his charge. 



The area of enclosed ground extends 

 over 31 imperial acres, — a considerable 

 addition having been recently made to- 

 wards the south, in the shape of a broad 

 slip of ground stretching the whole length 

 of the garden, including the breadth of 

 the east and west slips. This part, being 

 at the greatest distance from the nouses, 

 is cropped with the heavier and coarser 

 kinds of culinary crops, and fruit trees. 

 From the centre of this point, how- 

 ever, it is not improbable that a car- 

 riage entrance may be made from the 

 new road now forming, by which the 

 visitor, on entering the walled garden, 

 will have presented to his view the eleva- 

 tion of the finest range of glass in any 

 garden in Europe. Another entrance is 

 now opening, by which access may be 

 got from the west. The present, which 

 is the most convenient on arriving from 

 the castle, or home park, is at the east end 

 of the range, through a modest but mas- 

 sive gateway, with porter's lodge on one 

 side, and a covered resting-place on the 

 other. No sooner is this gate opened 

 than the visitor finds himself on the end 

 of a spacious terrace walk, 1132 feet in 



