The Badminton Magazine 1899-02: Vol 8 Iss 43 (1899)
Longman, Green & Co · leaf 20
number of small carrés or squares, about 200 yards by 100, composed of all kinds of fine trees, chiefly poplars aud a few firs, with very luxuriant undergrowth. Between these carrés there are glades about six yards wide, which make perfect positions for the guns. Every here and there large… … But now that the sportsmen who flourished under the Third Napoleon are gone, these carrés have been allowed to become too dense. The trees, as they have increased in size, have not been properly thinned out, and the undergrowth has become far too thick and high, in fact, almost impenetrable even…
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