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street, and in other streets and roads may reason- 

 ably be expected; that all would succeed without 

 need of frequent replacement, any more than in 

 Paris, can scarcely be even hoped. Healthy trees 

 should be selected not what may be called poles. 

 In some localities, and in some circumstances, varie- 

 ties of Ilex, of Evergreen Oaks, of Aucubas, and of 

 other evergreens of the Pine groups, where smoke 

 does not interfere, &c., may be very appropriate 

 along sides of streets ; but judgment is much needed 

 in selection of plants. I have seen Privets called 

 evergreen, Ligmtrum oratum, &c., grafted on long 

 stems, growing as single trees round courts of the 

 noblest palatial residences in Italy. 



PLANTING ABOUT RAILWAY STATIONS, ETC. 



Already railway banks, and other patches of 

 ground adjacent to stations in various places, and 

 varying in extent, are planted so as to be features of 

 considerable interest. The first which I particularly 

 noticed is that at Falkirk ; afterwards the noble 

 group of Douglas' lordly Pine at Dunkeld ; and 

 since, the little garden, thirty feet long by seventeen, 

 at rere of the Salt-hill station, near Dublin, Mr. 

 Kelly, the station-master, has transformed into a 

 gem, for which, justly, he has been presented with a 

 medal by the Royal Horticultural Society of Ire- 

 land, and been honoured by visits from the first 

 personages in the country. At some railway sta- 



