178 LONDON TREES 



of the North American Ptelea trifoliata, a tree of 

 small growth that is nearly allied to our common Elm. 

 Curiously enough, this tree fell the same day that 

 Mr. Gladstone, the eminent tree-feller, resigned. 



Dickens 9 Garden. Attached to the house occupied 

 for many years by Charles Dickens (No. i Devonshire 

 Place), and from which came forth quite a dozen of 

 his most popular works, is a beautiful garden with only 

 a few trees that are worthy of note. 



There is a gigantic Black Italian Poplar, some 

 75 feet in height, the well-formed trunk girthing 

 7 feet 4 inches at a yard from the ground. Along two 

 sides of the lawn is a line of healthy, fast-growing 

 Lime trees, while the Common Laburnums, Acacia, and 

 Elder all succeed well in these pleasant and interesting 

 grounds. 



Devonshire House Garden. Nowhere in Central 

 London are there so many fine Ash and Elm trees as 

 in this large and well-kept garden. Some of the Elms 

 are of goodly proportions, two which abut on the lawn 

 being 75 feet in height and quite useful timber trunks 

 that girth 1 1 feet at a yard from the ground. The Ash 

 trees are many, healthy and well-developed, the clean, 

 well-rounded boles measuring 6 \ feet in circumference 

 at 3 feet up. There is quite a plantation of mixed 

 trees at the end of the grounds farthest from the 

 house, consisting of Plane, Chestnut (Horse and 

 Spanish), Lime, Black Italian Poplar, Elm, and Ash. 

 Interspersed with these are Elders and Thorns, all 

 forming rather a jungle that would be improved by 

 careful thinning and pruning. As before said, the 

 Ash are remarkably good specimens and point out 

 how well adapted this tree is for planting in London, 

 even the West End. 



