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better than the Plane. The Lambeth Borough 

 Recreation ground is certainly surpassed by 

 no other open space in London for a confined, 

 smoky, and chemically impure atmosphere, 

 and the few soot-begrimed Hollies and 

 Euonymus that manfully struggle to eke out 

 an existence in this worst of the pottery dis- 

 tricts, though precious to the surrounding 

 householders, are scarcely presentable from 

 an ornamental point of view. At the Royal 

 Mint, where the chemical fumes from the 

 gold refining works are speedy death to most 

 forms of vegetation, the Fastigiate Poplar, 

 the Acacia, and Plane trees do best, whilst 

 among bedding plants it is a somewhat 

 strange fact that the little edging Fuchsia, 

 Golden Treasure succeeds admirably. 



THE LONDON PLANE (Platanus orientalis 

 acerifolia). The magnificent specimens of 

 the Plane that are to be seen in Portman, 

 Cavendish, and Manchester Squares, or the 

 equally fine old trees that are growing in Lin- 

 coln's Inn Fields or in the gardens of Gray's 

 Inn and the Temple, clearly point out how 



