146 LONDON TREES 



Catalpa, though small, quite lights up the place in 

 which it is growing. The Hollies, both green and 

 variegated, are particularly fine, many of the well- 

 developed specimens being from 25 to 30 feet in height, 

 perfect in outline and in the rudest of health. Our 

 native Pyrus (P. torminalis) is 30 feet high. This 

 is a well-kept, well-furnished, and very interesting 

 park. 



Vauxhall Park. These grounds, which are asso- 

 ciated with the blind Postmaster- General, contain 

 some trees of interest, particularly an old, though 

 well-furnished specimen of the Mulberry, the irregular 

 shaped stem of which girths 6 feet 5 inches at 2 feet 

 from the ground. It has a good spreading head, the 

 main stem, which is 30 feet high, having divided into 

 two trunks at about a height of 4 feet. There are 

 some nicely grown, mop -headed Acacias, which, as 

 is usual everywhere throughout the Metropolis, have 

 foliage of the brightest and most attractive shade of 

 green, the Ailanthus, Weeping Ash, some well-grown 

 Planes and Poplars, and a line of Elms. Four small 

 trees, each about 25 feet in height and bushy in 

 proportion, will here attract the observant visitor, for 

 they are almost unique in their way, being Cratcegus 

 Crus-galli grafted on a stock of the Wild Cherry. They 

 have quite an interesting appearance, and being 

 slightly drooping in habit are as ornamental as they 

 are uncommon. 



Millbank Garden. Conspicuous in this neatly kept, 

 long, narrow garden are some five and twenty of that 

 best of small-growing town trees Acacia inermis, or 

 the mop-headed variety. They are of uniform height 

 and backed up by a line of Planes. 



Ruskin Park. There are many trees of interest 



