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be sold by Auction, By Mr. Langford & Son, on 

 Thursday the ayth of this Instant, March, 1766 ; at 

 the Garden, in Whitechapel Fields, next the Half-way 

 House, leading to Stepney.' The contents of the 

 garden are catalogued in eighty-two lots, and amongst 

 other shrubs were Viburnum dentatum and Ledum 

 palustre, Cornish Bird Cherry and Hibiscus. In 

 Rocque's map of London, 1746, the Fields are shown 

 contiguous to the Mulberry Gardens. According 

 to the map in Baldwin's ' New Complete Guide,' 

 1766, the Fields occupied a space on the south side 

 of Whitechapel Road and Mile End, and extended 

 east from the London Hospital nearly down to Ratcliff 

 Highway. 



Trees on Open Spaces 



\ PART from the parks and squares, there are some 

 /jihalf a dozen open spaces where tree growth, 

 though in no way remarkable, is worthy of record, 

 and such places are rendered all the more valuable 

 and rural from the fact that they are open at all times 

 to the public, while the growth, in a few instances at 

 least, is natural and unconfined. Such places are 

 Hampstead Heath, London Fields, Hackney Marsh, 

 Wormwood Scrubbs, Tooting, Wandsworth and Clap- 

 ham Commons. There are also a few minor places 

 such as Hackney Downs, Stoke Newington and Eel 

 Brook Commons. 



Hampstead Heath. Amongst all the London parks 

 and open spaces, by far the most rural and beautiful 

 is Hampstead Heath. Including Parliament Hill, the 

 area of the Heath is fully 500 acres of wild, undulating 



