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These are some of the principal places in London 

 where tree growth is encouraged, but there are many 

 others of smaller size, so that the list is by no means 

 exhausted, and, as often happens, it is in the confined 

 areas, where the atmosphere is heated and impure, 

 that one is most elated with the occurrence of uncommon 

 trees or those of a particularly healthy appearance. 

 Special attention has been directed to the squares and 

 churchyards throughout the East End and other places 

 where the air is most impure, as it is there that the 

 difficult problems of successful tree growth have to 

 be contended with. To describe all the squares and 

 other open spaces and their trees would be endless 

 repetition, though care has been taken that typical 

 examples of all the Metropolitan areas have been repre- 

 sented. The majority are planted with the Plane, 

 Poplar, Lime, and Ailanthus, the boundary being often 

 shut in for privacy by hedges of the Lilac, Thorn, and 

 Laburnum. As we recede from the heart of the City, 

 the cultivation of trees becomes more simple until 

 at, say, Hampstead, Golder's Green, St. John's Wood, 

 Maida Vale, Bayswater, Highbury, and Kensington 

 almost any hardy species will thrive in quite a satis- 

 factory way. Even in and around Ladbroke Gardens, 

 at Netting Hill Gate, quite a host of trees succeed 

 admirably, and wherever the ground is high-lying 

 the air is comparatively purer and vegetation succeeds 

 better than in the low-lying and confined areas. 



Trees in Private Gardens 



IDDEN away in unexpected corners throughout 

 London are not a few rare and interesting trees, 

 the reasons for planting such in their confined and 



