TREES 47 



Red Horse-chestnUts, Aesculus flava and rubicunda, already 

 old trees in 1850 ; the Red Ash, Fraxinus pubescens, known 

 by its brown bark ; the Yellow Wood, Cladrastis tinctoria^ 

 bearing fragrant white flowers in June and bright yellow leaves 

 in autumn ; the American Persimmon, Diospyros virginiana, 

 which flowered in 1893 an( ^ set some fruit, but the fruit never 

 came to perfection ; and Viburnum pruni/oHum, a relation of 

 the Wayfaring Tree of the South of England. 



In the shrubbery are the beautiful Hibiscus roseum and two 

 varieties of Prunus. 



On the eastern side is a notable specimen of the N. 

 American Bur Oak, Quercus macrocarpa, trunk girth 3 ft. 2 in., 

 which is worthy of being more extensively planted in this 

 country. Lonicera xylosteum almost fills a small bed under 

 a Birch ; and in the middle of a clump of shrubs is a good- 

 sized Montpelier Maple, Acer monspessulanum, clothed in 

 spring with pretty yellowish-green flowers. 



Having now passed in review the more important trees and 

 shrubs at present growing within the walls of Lord Danby's 

 Garden, we may turn our attention to those without the 

 walls. 



THE PINETUM 



We do not know whether those who originally undertook 

 the cultivation of the land outside the walls were influenced 

 by the thought of the verse in the well-known chapter (xli.) 

 of Isaiah : 



I will plant in the wilderness the cedar . . . 



I will set in the desert the fir tree, and the pine, and the box tree together ; 



but so it has come to pass. 



Some sixty years ago a strip of ground outside the walls to 

 the west of the Garden was rented by Dr. Daubeny from 

 Magdalen College for growing Cone-bearing plants, but, although 

 a start was made with a score of species, only some half- 



