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Parks and Kew Gardens and in too many of the 

 County Council's open spaces. The trees are 

 not deprived of their lower branches, nor other- 

 wise mutilated, or cut down because they are 

 aged or decaying or draped in ivy ; nor are the 

 wind-chased yellow and russet leaves that give 

 a characteristic beauty and charm to the winter 

 woodland here swept up and removed like offen- 

 sive objects ; nor are the native shrubs and 

 evergreens rooted up to be replaced by that 

 always ugly inharmonious exotic, the rhodo- 

 dendron. 



