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Chelsea and in the East End, very good specimens are 

 to be found growing. As an ornamental tree of 

 medium size the Honey Locust is well worthy of 

 the attention of town planters, the pinnate and bi- 

 pinnate foliage being particularly elegant, while the 

 flowers, though individually small, are .borne in such 

 quantities of fascicled racemes as to attract notice. 

 The stem and branches are armed with formidable 

 prickles, though there is a form in which the spines 

 are wanting. The best specimens we have seen are 

 growing in rather light soil on a gravelly bottom. It 

 is usually propagated from root cuttings. 



Hop Hornbeam 



(Ostrya carpinifolid) 



SOUTH Europe, 1724. A much-branched, rough- 

 headed tree, with cordate-ovate, acuminate leaves. 

 Both this and O. virginica, by reason of the resemblance 

 between their female catkins and those of the Hop, 

 and between their leaves and those of the Hornbeam, 

 have acquired the very descriptive name of Hop 

 Hornbeam. This is a large-growing tree, specimens 

 in various parts of the country ranging in height from 

 50 to 60 feet. There are good specimens in several 

 of the London parks and private gardens. 



Hornbeam 



(Carpinus Betulus) 



FOR the more confined and smoky parts of 

 London the Common Hornbeam is not to be 

 recommended, though many specimens, as in Regent's 



