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shrub in Regent's Park whether in the 

 flower garden or by the lake side will 

 admit that it has at least some claims on the 

 town planter. In four situations at least this 

 Juniper has formed quite a wide-spreading 

 mass of healthy foliage; and, as the atmo- 

 sphere of Regent's Park cannot be favour- 

 ably spoken of, the right of this procumbent 

 conifer to be included in a list of town plants 

 will be obvious. It certainly succeeds better 

 than either Lawson's Cypress or the Austrian 

 Pine. In the chemically impure atmosphere 

 of Glasgow Retinospora plumosa aurea has 

 thriven for many years; and it is a fact well 

 known to a few botanists that the rare Ce- 

 phalotaxus Fortunei has succeeded for many 

 years in a smoky locality in the middle of 

 London. Such cases are, however, rare and 

 probably only point out that healthy, well 

 rooted specimens of almost any plant, when 

 given suitable soil, can succeed for a time 

 even amongst the heated and foul surround- 

 ings of some parts of the great metropolis. 

 Prumnopitys elegans or Podocarpus andina 



