Highways and byways in Surrey . Pyr/orci Chu>-ch. frogs climbed the leaves above them. To-day that is hardlymore than a memory. When the owner died the garden wasbought by Sir Thomas Hanbury and presented to the Royal KEW DESCENDS 233 Horticultural Society. The society came down from Kewupon the fold ; and on the open ground beside the old garden,tangled and unhappy, set down a row of superb glasshouses,planted a number of specimen fruit trees, and devoted itselfforthwith to up-to-date research and education on the most. lyislcy Church. approved lines of modern scientific arboriculture and
Highways and byways in Surrey . Pyr/orci Chu>-ch. frogs climbed the leaves above them. To-day that is hardlymore than a memory. When the owner died the garden wasbought by Sir Thomas Hanbury and presented to the Royal KEW DESCENDS 233 Horticultural Society. The society came down from Kewupon the fold ; and on the open ground beside the old garden,tangled and unhappy, set down a row of superb glasshouses,planted a number of specimen fruit trees, and devoted itselfforthwith to up-to-date research and education on the most. lyislcy Church. approved lines of modern scientific arboriculture and hybridi-sation in hothouses. Last of the little bunch of Weyside churches is Byfleet, with abelfry built on some magnificent oak beams. Byfleet ManorHouse used to be a royal hunting lodge, and was gi\en with A GHOST IN VELVET ch. xx the right of free warren by Edward II to Piers Gavestori. Itslast royal owner was James the Firsts queen, Anne ofDenmark, and it was probably she who built the massive wallsand the forecourt of the garden of the present home. But themanor house itself is early Georgian; and though it has hadsome ugly additions, it still stands square and strong behind itsfine old gateway. James is supposed to have planted theScotch firs in the garden, to remind Queen Anne of the homeshe left behind her in the north. Such a building would be sure to have some quaint tradi-tions. It is known locally as the Kings House, and there isa legend that Henry VIII was nursed there. He may havebeen, but not in
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