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confined and smoky parts neither tree succeeds in a 

 satisfactory way, though representatives of both species, 

 usually in a more or less unhealthy condition, and 

 attacked by the pine beetle and wood wasp, are to 

 be met with in several of the parks and open spaces. 

 Some of the trees in Golder's Green Park are about 

 70 feet high, with well-formed trunks 6 feet and 

 upwards in girth and healthy heads of foliage, while 

 Constable's trees and others over Hampstead Heath 

 are also in a fairly satisfactory condition. Constable's 

 clump numbers 36 trees, the largest of which has 

 a stem girth of 9 feet 10 inches at a yard from 

 ground-level and an approximate height of 65 feet. 

 Bostall Wood, which is just outside our boundary, 

 contains, however, by far the largest number of 

 Scotch firs in the London district, and may best be 

 described as a dense pine plantation. Stray specimens 

 of the Austrian, Corsican, and Weymouth Pines are 

 met with over the Metropolis, but in only a few 

 situations can they be said to be either ornamental or 

 in a healthy condition. 



T 



Plane 



(Platanus orientalis acerifolid) 



HE Maple-leaved or London Plane stands first 

 in the list of select trees for planting in towns, 

 where it grows vigorously and is well adapted for with- 

 standing smoke and other impurities of the atmosphere. 

 In London, at least, it succeeds better than any other 

 tree, and a visit to almost any of the parks, public 

 squares, or the Thames Embankment will substantiate 

 the statement. The fact of its succeeding so well has, 



