THE EARL OF MILLTOWNasked Her Majesty's Government, When the First Commissioner of Works proposes to remove the unsightly rows of trees which have been recently planted on either bank of the Serpentine, in accordance with the assurance given by him last summer?
§ LORD HENNIKERsaid, that when he answered a similar Question in an earlier part of the Session he did not give his noble Friend any assurance, but he informed him that the trees were originally planted with the view to their being eventually removed into groups. On the north side of the Serpentine the removal of the trees would be carried out at once. The trees on the south side have not been planted quite so long; it was, therefore, thought it would be better not to remove them all this year, but at a later period. He could assure the noble Earl that the First Commissioner of Works had every intention of carrying out his original proposal with respect to these trees.