128 TOWN PLANTING 



robust growth, larger leaves, and paler flowers, 

 is to be recommended for town gardening. 



WISTARIA SINENSIS has some claims to be 

 considered as a town shrub, for numerous 

 goodly specimens may be seen wherever the 

 air is not too confined and impure. It is an 

 excellent wall or arbour plant, the long drooping 

 racemes of purplish-lilac flowers being produced 

 in rich profusion. Not by any means difficult 

 to cultivate, but, being a plant of wide spread, 

 it should be allowed plenty of room for develop- 

 ment. 



THE BRAMBLES (Rubus) are likewise suitable 

 for town planting, and two species at least 

 have survived the ordeal of smoke, heat and 

 dust for the past ten years in a city garden ; 

 R. laciniatus (the cut-leaved Bramble) would 

 seem to be best suited for smoky localities. 



