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of attention. In many town streets, where 

 the air is vitiated with fumes, the Mountain 

 Ash grows with great freedom. 



THE ALDER (Alnus cor data). In this 

 we have a good addition to the few trees that 

 are really suitable for town planting, for it 

 grows with great vigour and retains much 

 of its fresh, spring-tide greenness in very 

 smoky and impure localities. Of hardy con- 

 stitution and unusually strong growth, it 

 seems to defy the sooty emanations from 

 hundreds of chimneys in two at least of our 

 largest centres of industry. 



THE MAIDENHAIR TREE (Qinhgo biloba). 

 A visit to the worst smoke-infested 

 slums in London has now quite convinced 

 me that the Maidenhair or Ginkgo Tree 

 is one of the most valuable that can be 

 planted in the impure atmosphere of a 

 town garden. Few trees, I am fully aware, 

 can compare with the one in question for 

 withstanding the deleterious effects produced 

 on vegetation generally by coming in too 

 close contact with the impurities of our great 



