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appearance, but render it readily susceptible 

 to disease and insect pests. Glaring exam- 

 ples of badly pruned trees may be seen at 

 Kensington, on the Chiswick Road, at West- 

 minster, Cricklewood, and along many of our 

 streets, and in our public parks and gardens. 

 There is, too, certainly just cause for the 

 numerous complaints which have recently been 

 made regarding the pruning of trees in Grove 

 Park and other of the London districts. But 

 much of this mismanagement is directly attri- 

 butable to the fact that originally the trees were 

 planted too close together and in much too 

 confined spaces. At Grove Park, which, by 

 the by, is a street 30 ft. wide, situated not 

 far from Denmark Hill, the trees have been 

 planted within 9 ft., in some instances 6 ft., 

 of the trees in the adjoining gardens, the 

 result being that in not a few cases the street 

 trees are overhung by the branches of those 

 in the private grounds alongside. We par- 

 ticularly noticed a Plane tree that had been 

 planted within 6 ft. of a noble specimen of 

 the Acacia which was fully 5 oft. high, the 



