148 LONDON TREES 



mainly composed. The Bay tree is fully 20 feet high, 

 and there are many specimens of the Weeping Willow. 

 Other interesting and rare trees are Rhus Osbeckii and 

 a young, clean-stemmed specimen of the Judas Tree, 

 both of which flower freely. By far the largest 

 Wistaria in London is in this park. 



Camberwell Green. There are some uncommon 

 trees growing in this crowded thoroughfare, including 

 a giant specimen of the Paulownia, with a branch 

 spread of 48 feet, the main stem being 18 inches in 

 diameter. The John Innes Turkey Oak, planted in 

 1861, is thriving well, as are also the pleached Lime 

 trees which surround a part of the grounds. Mop- 

 headed Acacias are well represented, and the Holly 

 and Almond have attained to goodly proportions, and 

 are the picture of health. There is a nice young tree 

 of the American Fountain Willow, and a rare Thorn has 

 become well developed on the greensward in a pyra- 

 midal shape, the extreme height being only 10 feet, 

 while the branch spread is 27 feet in diameter and 

 almost a perfect circle. 



Bethnal Green Gardens. The large, healthy Hollies, 

 both Common and Minorca, are the pride of these 

 gardens ; no finer line of these trees exists in London 

 than that extending along the side of Cambridge Road. 

 Standards of the same kind are also of large size, 

 and have an imposing appearance where allowed 

 plenty of room on the greensward. There is a nice 

 Catalpa about 25 feet high, the lower branches 

 having a spread of 30 feet in diameter. Cotoneaster 

 frigida thrives well, as does the still rarer C. nummu- 

 laridy which is unique in its way, being 30 feet high, 

 the stem 12 inches in diameter, and the branch spread 

 27 feet. 



