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the former — I have seen them flower | 

 beautifully in Lincoln's Inn Fields 

 and Tower Garden ; the common and 

 weeping birch — these make ornamen- 

 tal trees well planted singly ; Catalpa 

 syringifolia does well, and I believe 

 the first of the kind in this country 

 is to be seen in the gardens of Gray's 

 Inn, said to have been planted by 

 Lord Bacon ; the common and cut- 

 leaved alder; tli3 double-blossomed 

 cherry — this is a handsome dwarf- 

 tree, and will do well in town if not 

 too much confined : some years ago 

 there were some beautiful trees on 

 the north side of Lincoln's Inn 

 Fields ; English Elm — this is a hardy 

 tree, of slow growth, and that it does 

 well in London is evident from the 

 fine old trees in Lincoln's Inn, the 

 Temple, and Gray's Inn ; the Wych 

 elm — this will do m the most confined 

 situations, and is quicker in growth 

 than the former ; the fig-tree— this 

 will do well in towns, either as a low 

 standard, or particularly well to cover 

 walls ; it will grow in the most con- 

 fined situation, and is well adapted to 

 cover the nakedness of walls ; the 

 lime— this does well in any of the 

 squares, and being one of the first in 

 leaf, its lively green is very cheerful ; 

 the laburnum, an ornamental tree of 

 low growth, looks well among the 

 lilacs in spring ; the Scotch seems to 

 do best as a standard, but the com- 

 mon is best for training against a 

 wall ; horse chesnut — this makes a 

 pretty tree for a few years in towns, 

 but in spring, when the buds begin 

 to swell, they emit so much resin that 

 the soot sticks to them and stifles 

 them, the consequence is that they do 

 not break freely, and so gradually 

 decline ; the maple-leaved plane — 

 this tree seems to be quite at home 

 in London, growing luxuriantly in 

 the most confined spots, fruiting and 

 casting off its bark, and there is not 

 a spot in town where a tree is wanted 

 but this should be planted ; trees 

 about five years old move the best, 

 and do the best when planted in 

 towns ; there are some splendid trees 

 about the town, one at the corner of 

 Wood Street, Cheapside, Newgate 

 Street, Lincoln's Inn Fields, and 

 many other places ; the Oriental 



plane does well, but does not make 

 such a handsome tree as the former ; 

 the Lombardy poplar will grow any- 

 where — its stiff, formal appearance 

 makes it a great favourite with many 

 persons ; aspen poplar will do in any 

 of the squares, the trembling motion 

 of the leaves, even on the calmest 

 day, makes it very interesting ; the 

 gleditschia — this tree resembles the 

 acacia, and most of the varieties will 

 do well in towns ; sycamore will do 

 well in most of the squares ; a tree 

 of this kind is to be seen in the 

 Inner Temple Gardens, supposed to 

 be between 300 and 400 years old ; 

 thorns — most of the varieties do well 

 in town ; in Lincoln's Inn Fields 

 there are some very beautiful speci- 

 mens of double pink and white, and 

 several other sorts ; the common 

 mulberry seems to do well in the 

 most confined situation, attaining a 

 great age there, a fine old tree 

 being in the pretty garden of the 

 Temple, and several others about the 

 town, which in some seasons bear 

 fruit ; the pear-tree grows well in the 

 Temple, and some seasons carries a 

 little fruit. So I think it very likely 

 when the Gardens in Towns Pro- 

 tection Bill and the Smoke Act are 

 brought into full operation, we shall 

 not only grow trees and flowers, but 

 plenty of fruit. 



The foregoing are the standard 

 trees best adapted for towns ; now 

 for shrubs and bushes, which may be 

 grown from two to six feet high : — 

 Aucuba Japonica, commonly called 

 the spotted laurel — this is the best of 

 all evergreen shrubs for towns, and 

 will do well in almost any situation 

 if kept low and full of young wood ; 

 this may be done by cutting down 

 the longest shoots in spring, when 

 they will make beautiful foliage, and 

 if occasionally washed it is unequalled 

 by any other shrab; Althea frutex 

 will do well in any open space, the 

 white and red flower well in the 

 Temple Garden ; the China Arbor 

 vitae will do pretty well if planted 

 amongst other shrubs — if exposed, it 

 is apt to run up and lose its bottom 

 foliage, and look unsightly ; bladder 

 senna, a free-growing iiowering bush, 

 very pretty with its inflated pods ; it 



