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autumn. It grows freely in almost any soil, 

 reproducing itself in suitable positions, and 

 soon forms a handsome tree of almost giant 

 proportions. The most suitable for town- 

 planting are the upright-growing and free- 

 flowering kinds. The varieties known as 

 Decaisneana, microphylla, macrophylla, 

 sophoraefolia, inermis, and the upright- 

 habited are most to be desired. 



THE LIME (Tilia Europcea). Where the 

 situation is not too confined, and where soot 

 and smoke do not abound, the Lime may and 

 does succeed; but when used in the worst 

 parts of the metropolis, it soon shows signs 

 of distress, the tips of the branches dying off, 

 and the whole tree sooner or later showing 

 the fierce struggle it has to endure with 

 smoke and fumes. As an avenue tree, in the 

 more airy and pure parts of a town, the Lime 

 has certainly few equals, its general contour 

 and the pleasing shade it affords being points 

 of special recommendation. 



PRUNUS MOLLIS (or, more correctly, P. 

 Americana mollis) has few equals for plant- 



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