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about the first week in October, they should be collected 

 and sown immediately, as the germinative properties 

 are much impaired after the first year and are entirely 

 wanting at a later period. 



With the various kinds of Maple, seed-sowing, 

 layering, grafting and budding are all resorted to. 

 Most of the vigorous-growing kinds are budded, and 

 those of more slender habit, such as the Japanese 

 varieties, are grafted on allied species. Layering, 

 when it can be carried out, is a more expeditious and 

 certain way of increasing any particular variety ; but 

 as that cannot be done in dealing with large trees, 

 the preferable way is to take cuttings of the current 

 year's growth, which root freely in light, open soil. 



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Tamarisk 



(Tamarix gallicd) 



T may seem out of place to describe the Tamarisk 

 in a list of trees, but under exceptionally favourable 

 circumstances it attains to quite 20 feet in height, with 

 a well-formed trunk that often reaches to 2 feet in 

 diameter. Such specimens may be seen by the lake- 

 side in Battersea Park, where a height of over 20 feet 

 has been reached, the tree-like stems girthing 2 feet 

 5 inches at a yard from the ground. In the central 

 and Regent's Parks the Tamarisk has likewise thriven 

 well, though the dimensions of the best do not equal 

 the Battersea specimens. It is well known as a good 

 subject for the seaside, but evidently from its behaviour 

 in London would appear to be by no means averse to 

 a smoky locality. For ornamental planting it is to be 

 recommended, the long, slender branches of bluish- 



