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as in these grounds, there being quite a forest of young 

 trees by the inner wall. Some of the older specimens 

 are 30 feet high and 22 inches in girth of stem. 

 The Common Elder has attained to a large size in this 

 dampish, sunless churchyard. 



St. James's Church, Piccadilly. The group of 

 Plane trees are not remarkable for size, but are a good 

 example of how this tree can succeed in dark, cramped 

 positions, and where penned in by tall buildings. 

 What strikes one most, however, here is the remark- 

 ably healthy young Catalpa tree that is flourishing 

 within a few yards of the pavement by the street side 

 and where the flat tombstones cover the space in 

 which it has been planted. It is about 25 feet high 

 and in excellent health. 



St. John's Church, St. John's Wood. Tree growth 

 here is unusually luxuriant for London, the Sycamore, 

 Lime, Black and Lombardy Poplars having attained to 

 large dimensions, while the bright, healthy leafage 

 points out that they are quite at home. There are 

 some gigantic Willows which at one time have been 

 beheaded ; while the Laburnum and far-spreading 

 Sumachs are as healthy as could be desired. 



Jews' Burial Ground, Mile End. Here there is little 

 of interest in the way of tree growth, and the grounds 

 are wild and badly kept. An avenue, or rather an 

 attempt at such, of mixed Poplars, Sycamores, and a 

 few Ailanthus, intersects the grounds, while near the 

 entrance is a single specimen of Cotoneaster frigida 

 no doubt a seedling from fruit dropped by a bird. It 

 is remarkable how this Cotoneaster crops up in out-of- 

 the-way places where it is unlikely to have been planted. 



St. Anne and St. Agnes (Bishopsgate). Here there 

 are a number of well-grown, healthy Fig trees that 



