108 PLANTING. 



Extract from the ' Journal of Forestry/ November 

 1884: 



" Tree-planting in London and San Francisco. Mary 

 Wager Fisher writes to the ' Eural New Yorker' 

 from San Francisco 



" ' Fuchsia, heliotrope, geranium, and plants of this 

 order of hardiness, are left in the ground the year 

 round. When the winter is more than usually cold, 

 as was last winter, they are likely to freeze down, 

 but sprout again in the spring. Fuchsias grow to be 

 several feet in height and several feet in diameter, 

 forming a great bush when left untrirnmed, like our 

 spiraeas, and are used as hedges, while their bloom is 

 enormous. Pelargoniums and geraniums grow to a 

 similar size 6 to 8 feet high. I saw in Oakland, 

 a suburb of San Francisco, an abutilon fully 20 feet 

 high, nearly covering the large side of a dwelling- 

 house. Oakland is an exceedingly beautiful city, 

 and in its most fashionable quarter the lawns and 

 gardens are wonderfully fine. They are not large, 

 but are kept in perfect freshness by means of hose 

 and water. A great many cypress hedges enclose 

 the lawns ; and as cypress grows here in greatest 

 luxuriance, it bears any amount of pruning, and the 

 trees and hedges are trimmed into any desired shape, 

 quite as fantastic as those one sees at the Versailles 

 Gardens in France. 



" ' The eucalyptus-trees grow to a striking height, 

 and have the drooping habit of the elm, but are more 

 slender in form. The new leaves are of an altogether 

 different shape and hue of green than those of an older 

 growth, and when on the same tree they form a 

 curious appearance. With the exception of some 

 rows of Lombardy poplars, I have nowhere seen a 



