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are thriving in quite 'a satisfactory way. The grounds, 

 owing to being only planted around the margin, have a 

 somewhat bare appearance even during the summer 

 months. On either side of the main entrance gate is 

 a fair-sized Catalpa, while the Plane, Ash, and Ailan- 

 thus are all more or less at home in this thickly 

 populated district. The Almond has attained to the 

 height of 20 feet, and there are some fair specimens 

 of the Cockspur and Common Thorns, Pyrus of sorts, 

 and the Elder. 



Paddington Recreation Ground can boast of no 

 remarkable trees, the lines of Planes being most 

 pronounced, while there are a few Lime trees and a 

 line of Pink-flowered Thorn along one side. 



Avondale Park. The Weeping Willow and Japanese 

 Lilac are the main features of this park, there being 

 many full-sized specimens of each, this Lilac especially 

 being a somewhat rare shrub or small-growing tree 

 throughout the Metropolis. There are several nice 

 young specimens of the Catalpa, healthy and thriving, 

 while the Ailanthus and Fig also succeed well. Planes 

 are not wanting, one side of the grounds having a line 

 of these commonest of London trees. 



Kennington Park. The predominant tree here is 

 the Ailanthus, which occurs not only in lines but as 

 single specimens, and from its bright, healthy look 

 and rapidity of growth appears to be particularly 

 suitable for the soil and district. It flowered very 

 freely during the present year. There are many 

 hybrid Oaks, the variety Fulhamensis occurring in most 

 parts of the grounds, one side of a square containing 

 about twenty-five of these trees, which average 30 feet 

 in height. The Silver Maple, Eastern Thuya, and Sea 

 Buckthorn are all thriving well, while the Golden 



