The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1901-02-09

| a coach and four-in-hand from Picca-
| dilly circus on Sunday mornings
The approach to the palace is through
! Busby park of four hundred acres, by
| a broad avenue about mile long. On
| each side Of this avenue are fine rows
| of horse-chestnut trees, set fifty feet
apart. These trees are two or three
| feet in diameter and about eighty feet
| high, and cover with their shade a
space, including the avenue, not less
than eight hundred feet wide.
The garden of forty-four acres was
laid out on each side of the palace by
William III. The right side, called the
Pond garden, is in the Dutch style, with
elevated terraces, sunken paneled
lawns, arcade walks formed by flower
ing shrubs, flower beds and goldfish
pond. Here is the old grapery, con-
tanning the famous black Hamburg vine
that is one hundred and thirty-two
years old. The stem at the entrance of
the glass house is a foot in diameter.
There 1t sends out three or four branch
e.s three inches in diameter. These are
trained SO that the whole roof, one hum
dred feet long and forty feet wide, is
completely covered, and the fruit Is so
carefully pruned and thinned that the
punches hang about foot apart from
every part of the vine. AS / saw them
twelve hundred clusters, fully ripe
and well colored-they presented sight
that l shall never forget. This enor-
nous crop is maintained by an annual
application of a heavy coat, of old sta
BILE manure and ground bone, which is
forked into a plot Of ground about as
large as the grapery just across the
graveled roadway, the main roots pass
ing under the road to this feeding plot.
The part Of the garden ON the other
side Of the palace is differently ar
ranged, and planted chiefly with larger
shrubs and trees.
Standing in front Of the principal ia
cade Of the palace, one looks out upon
vast expanse of park scenery of elev-
en- thousand acres. In the foreground is
a fountain, and in front Is the yew
park, planted with yew trees two hum
bred years ago. These, with their very
deep green foliage and pistillate plants,
bearing an abundance Of bright scarlet
berries, presented very beautiful and
unique feature In the landscape. The/l
trees seldom grow more than thirty feet
high, but have very large, thick trunks.
They live to great age. There are
several in England supposed to be from
seven hundred to a thousand years old.
One at barley, Derbyshire, is f1fty-five
feet high, with trunk nineteen feet
three inches in diameter. Othrs in |
Scotland and ireland are of about the
same size, and are supposed to be as |
old as the Christian era.
Opening out from the yew park, fam
like, are five broad, graveled walks, |
about fifty feet wide extending as far
as the eye can reach. The middle one
ends in pond of the same width, we'll
stocked with fish for the angler, and
used as skating-rink In the winter |
These walks are lined on each side with
ll-grown English elms and linden
.rees, with trunks from two to four feet
n diameter and about eighty feet high.
The branches Of these trees are
up uniformly about eight feet
rom the ground, showing an even, UNI
form surface under the trees for the
whole distance, system of tree-plant-
ng entirely different from that at Kew
but beautiful in It's oddly