OCTOBER 23, 1$875.] 
THE 
GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
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they occupy. In a few years this part of the 
ground will be a bare blank space, as the trees 
are past the possibility of recovery ; and it is too 
much to expect that any steps will be taken to 
have the ground at regular intervals occu- 
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old trees from spaces at distances sufficiently | 
would attain if suffici 
by the removal of a portion: : 
e allowed them 
ia the Regent’s 
t apparent, but if 
timely thinning is not very soon resorted to the 
next generation will see the trees іп a similar 
condition there. Take the principal avenue that 
runs parallel with Albany Street, and about 
half way betwixt it and the BANE Маи, 
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met, which is just twice as close as ка ey ought 
to be, with a view to their future well-being 
Those who have the slightest knowledge 
which it is not possible to remove. This, in 
the case of town trees can best be асса 
far apart to insure enovgh room for the young 
thriving plantation would be coming on o 
the whole ground, to succeed jme е are 
dying out. 
The war of extermination which is here all 
but SERN out is only somewhat in advance of | 
what has begun elsewlere. For almost the 
cv length ot the Park up the side of the Bays- 
water Road, and to some extent on the opposite 
Kensington side, the trees are much too close 
for them to live to more than half the age they | 
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and ability to attain a healthy old age. The 
is covered by a hard gravelled road, so 
GEB to nds that four-fifths of the descend- 
ing rains run off instead of being absorbed by 
the soil to afford х ак roots the requisite sus- | 
ore than one 
ordinary land. Yet they must be wholly depen- | 
dent for water on this insufficiently moistened | 
space ; and this over-dry state must obviously 
be intensified by any approach to crowding. 
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The ground for these should be | greater part of the space occupied by their roots | 
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lished b ing them eem room than — 
P y giving nditions ' 
сы Чеди were all 
or mete and in sounding th 
warning we do not for a moment sappa E it w 
