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of some of the trees and general well-furnished ap- 

 pearance of the park. Queen Elizabeth's Walk at one 

 of the entrances is bordered by a row of well-grown 

 Elm trees. The Deciduous Cypress thrives well here 

 and has attained to large proportions, as have also 

 the Evergreen Oaks, numerous varieties of Thorns, 

 the Laburnums, and a varied collection of Pyrus 

 and Prunus. Cedar of Lebanon has thriven well, and 

 some of the specimens have a wide sweep of branches 

 and well-developed trunks. 



Two Mulberry trees have attained to rather unusual 

 proportions ; the largest, the stem of which is recum- 

 bent and propped and partly diseased, girths 7 feet 

 at a yard from the ground. The other, standing at 

 a short distance away, is a far finer and healthier tree, 

 that has attained to a height of fully 30 feet, with a 

 well-built trunk a foot in diameter. 



The Pin or Swamp Oak (Quercus palustris), some 

 60 feet high, with a dark, smooth-barked trunk, seems 

 to grow as freely on the bowling-green as in the marshes 

 of its native country. The pride of the park is evi- 

 dently the gigantic Willows by the river-side, with 

 remarkably clean, well-formed trunks, some of which 

 are over 10 feet in girth at a yard from ground-level. 

 Thorns thrive unusually well, and the Glastonbury 

 (Cratcegus prcecox) is the largest in London, as is 

 also the immense specimen of the common species, 

 which is carefully guarded by a fence, towards the 

 centre of the park. This Thorn forms a perfect 

 hemisphere of branches, 54 feet in diameter, the 

 immense trunk, which divides into three near ground- 

 level, being 2 feet in diameter. The Glastonbury is 

 in perfect health, and though the straggling stem, 

 which is about a foot in diameter, has been propped 



