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some people asserting that it existed in far- 

 off days in the Abbot's garden or orchard, 

 which may be right, for a plan of Dean Stan- 

 ley's "Memorials of Westminster Abbey," 

 showing the precinct as it was "about 1536," 

 shows the orchard to be pretty close to where 

 this tree stands. It is apparently about 30 ft. 

 high, its trunk being somewhere about a foot 

 in diameter. 



THE STAG'S^HORN SUMACH (Rhus typhina) 

 may also be found widely distributed over 

 London and thriving satisfactorily in many of 

 the East End gardens, as also at Lambeth 

 and Stratford, all of which places have been 

 found by no means conducive to tree or 

 shrub growth. In some of the more open 

 and less smoky districts of the metropolis, 

 as at Kensington and Westbourne, the Su- 

 mach has attained to a goodly size, flowers 

 freely, and is charming in Autumn by reason 

 of the varied tints of the ample foliage. It 

 is a tree of small growth, rarely exceeding 

 20 ft. in height, and of somewhat free and 

 straggling habit of growth. Few soils come 



