TREES IN PRIVATE GARDENS 179 



Regent's Park College. There are several out-of- 

 the-way and uncommon trees to be seen in these 

 grounds, where the Deciduous Cypress has attained in 

 half a dozen cases to a height of 60 feet, while the 

 two old leaning Catalpas are amongst the best of their 

 kind in London, the largest having a trunk-girth of 

 5 feet 5 inches at a yard up. They are both of the 

 flat-headed, far-reaching type, and flower freely during 

 most seasons. The Common Birch is 40 feet high, 

 thickly foliaged and healthy ; the Manna Ash, a shapely, 

 round-headed tree with a branch spread of 36 feet, 

 has produced seed freely. Other interesting trees for 

 the London area are the Scotch Pine, Eastern Thuya, 

 and Indian Cedar, all healthy and long established. 

 The group of Evergreen Oaks is particularly fine, some 

 of the trees having a branch spread of 50 feet. Pavias 

 thrive well, so do several interesting Thorns, and Hollies 

 25 feet in height are to be seen. On the front lawn 

 is a Silver-leaved Lime of goodly proportions, and near 

 by two badly-coloured Copper-leaved Beech trees, the 

 purple being faint and tinted with green. Other good 

 trees are the Liquidambar, 30 feet in height, Cornish 

 Elms, 80 feet high, the Weeping Ash, and Purple- 

 barked Willow. The Honey Locust thrives well, 

 as do the Sumachs and cut-leaved Maples, especially 

 the small- leaved kinds. 



St. Dunstan's, Regent's Park. There is a fairly 

 representative collection of trees growing in these 

 grounds, including a goodly specimen of the Mulberry 

 on the front lawn, Fatsia japonica, many in flower, 

 bright-foliaged Golden Elms, and several distinct 

 species of Thorn. The Mulberry is a particularly 

 handsome tree some 30 feet in height, the well- 

 developed head of foliage having a spread of 39 feet, 



