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trees, but the smaller trees which carry autumn berries 

 must be represented the Thorns, the Crabs, various 

 Pyruses, Rosa rugosa, the Cotoneaster, the Hollies, the 

 Barberry, the Tree of Heaven, the Mountain Ash, the 

 Honey Locust, the Cydonia, the Spindle Tree, the Lycium, 

 the Snowball Tree, the Symphoricarpus and the Yew. In 

 winter the brightness of coloured berry, stem and ever- 

 green foliage will be as grateful to the eye of the townsman 

 as shade is to his senses in the heat of summer. This 

 fact, together with the necessity for providing large 

 areas for games, must necessarily affect the designs of 

 landscape gardeners who plan great public parks. 



It may be suggested, moreover, that the coolness, 

 silence and shade, the " air of gravity, peace and medita- 

 tion" for which M. Maeterlinck pleads so eloquently, 

 could be provided by forming special enclosures for 

 students and thinkers. The need for such places grows 

 with every new technical school that is built, every 

 literary society which is formed, every scholarship 

 offered. There are thousands of humble students in the 

 great towns who have no place in which to study after 

 their hours in the class-room save the close and unwhole- 

 some rooms of mean dwellings. There are innumerable 

 Nature-lovers who know of no peaceful and secluded 

 sanctuary wherein to rest. The town park of big trees 

 would have to be zealously guarded to prevent its be- 

 coming the haunt of the idle and unclean. The student- 

 enclosure, with its shaded seats, cool summer-houses and 

 leafy ways, would call for a minimum of guardianship. 



