CHAPTER II. 
‘A PLEA FOR TREES IN TOWNS. 
‘S¢, T was the good fortune of the Author 
®. of this volume to be born in a 
singularly beautiful part of the 
most beautiful county of England. 
The place was town, and yet 
country; and there, less perhaps 
than elsewhere, did it require demon- 
Pe stration that man had made the one and 
<< God had made the other. Nature, indeed, 
firmly held her own, rich in choicest gifts, spread 
with lavish grace, alike through winding lane, over 
gentle upland slope and steep hill-side. She defied 
even the engineering power of man, compelling 
the homage of the builder by forcing him to build 
in accordance with her wayward fancies. And 
