12 TOWN PLANTING 



concerned. In London, for instance, certain 

 trees and shrubs which positively refuse to 

 live in the heart of the city do fairly well in 

 the suburbs, while still further out, where the 

 atmosphere is comparatively pure, they may 

 thrive in quite a satisfactory way. These 

 thriving and non-thriving areas are some- 

 times very sharply defined, and this has given 

 rise to a false idea regarding certain trees 

 and shrubs that will really succeed in the 

 more smoky parts when compared with the 

 same species which are found to do well in 

 the outer suburbs. High-lying and fairly 

 open parts of a town are also far more con- 

 ducive to plant growth generally than the 

 close and confined. 



In town planting there is, however, no 

 necessity for the almost monotonous repeti- 

 tion of such trees as the Plane and Lime, or 

 amongst shrubs of the Privet and Lilac, for 

 there are many others that will do almost 

 equally well, and that are quite as orna- 

 mental. Probably the fact that such are not 

 well known would form an excuse for their 



