TOWN PLANTING 



In another garden, where dust, smoke, and 

 soot are plentiful, the Bladder Campion (Si- 

 lene in flat a), Saponaria ojficinalis, the com- 

 mon Marigold, and Rye Grass seem to posi- 

 tively revel. In situations almost constantly 

 subjected to the sulphurous fumes of the rail- 

 way engines near Camden Town, and in the 

 poorest of soils, Poa annaa would appear 

 to be quite at home. The chemical fumes 

 from the pottery works at Lambeth are well 

 known to act injuriously on vegetation gene- 

 rally, but the Mulberry, Fig, Sycamore,Turkey, 

 and Evergreen Oaks thrive as well there as 

 they do in any part of the metropolis. The 

 fumes given off from many of our City manu- 

 factories act most perniciously on vegetation 

 generally a fact that was brought to my 

 notice by the behaviour of some of our most 

 valuable smoke-resisting trees and shrubs 

 that have been planted in the graveyard at 

 St . Giles-in-the-Fields . Meeting the gardener 

 there I remarked on the wretched condition 

 of the trees and shrubs generally, his quick 

 reply being, "Well I with Crosse & Blackwell's 



