96 COMMON SENSE GARDENS 



garden? On the Continent they were used prin- 

 cipally to border very long, very straight stretches 

 of roadway and canals. 



The Buttonball (Sycamore or Oriental Plane) 

 trees should not be planted on small grounds for 

 the present, anyway, until some remedy has been 

 found for the disease that has been ravaging them 

 for the past seven or eight years. Formerly their 

 universally good health w r as one of their recom- 

 mendations, but now they lose their leaves early 

 in June and their wood becomes so weakened that 

 it is broken easily by the wind and scattered over 

 the lawn. 



