The Pictorial handbook of London : comprising its antiquities, architecture, arts, manufacture, trade, social, literary, and scientific institutions, exhibitions, and galleries of art : together with some account of the principal suburbs and most attractive localities ; illustrated with two hundred and five engravings on wood, by Branston, Jewitt, and others and a new and complete map, engraved by Lowry . umber-land Lodge, Maestricht, and Kew, and the determination to concentratethe whole into one first-rate establishment. It having been found so veryunsatisfactory to have the royal gardens sc
The Pictorial handbook of London : comprising its antiquities, architecture, arts, manufacture, trade, social, literary, and scientific institutions, exhibitions, and galleries of art : together with some account of the principal suburbs and most attractive localities ; illustrated with two hundred and five engravings on wood, by Branston, Jewitt, and others and a new and complete map, engraved by Lowry . umber-land Lodge, Maestricht, and Kew, and the determination to concentratethe whole into one first-rate establishment. It having been found so veryunsatisfactory to have the royal gardens scattered about as they were be-fore, this method of combining them, and thus increasing their efficiency,was adopted at the recommendation of a commission of inquiry of whichDr. Lindley was the head. In order to enable the reader better to understand the general arrange-ment of these gardens, we present a ground plan of them, on a small scale,as they existed m 1849, which we are obligingly permitted to use fromcuts which have appeared in the Gardeners Chronicle. A slip of 8 acreshas been added to the lower part of them, making the entire area ofthe gardens about 32 acres. Being only about a mile from Windsor Castle, the pleasure groundsat which are destitute of any kind of plant structure except theorangery, one of the aims in forming these gardens has been to combine So top /.eg 200 sso 300 3-So__. GROUND PLAN OF GARDEN AT FROGMORE. 504 LONDON.
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