

THE LEAFY CUPS SURROUNDING THE NEW SHOOT. 



THE PLANE. 



HE Plane recalls no scenes of country life or landscape. 

 To most people the thought of it is inseparable from 

 the life of a city and from a thousand aspects of poverty 

 and wealth. The " Londoner's tree " flourishes in the 

 bare asphalte yard of a City Church, in the trim squares and parks 

 of the West End, along the margins of poor and busy streets. Yet 

 m i finer background could be found for the exquisite and intricate 

 pattern of its branches than the flat tones massive buildings supply, 

 and the smoke and vapours which fail to hinder its sturdy growth 

 throw about it Mich effects of atmosphere as London alone can 

 provide. 



One cannot soon weary oi the graceful branch-forms, hung with 

 the dark tassels of the seed-balls; oi the perfect poise and just pro- 

 portions of the smooth grey trunk, with the peeling bark continually 



