266 OUR WOODLAND TREES. 
beauty by Paris and Brussels; and for the reason 
that Tree-planting is not confined to the public 
recreation-grounds, but is extended into the 
streets. 
Who, for instance, amongst the visitors to Brus- 
sels has not experienced a delightful sense of its 
airiness and buoyancy? The spacious breadth of 
its streets, and their magnificence, due to the size 
and beauty of the buildings, have something to do 
with this sense of airiness and buoyancy. But it 
is, unquestionably, mainly owing to the abundant 
presence of Trees in its charming boulevards ; for 
the broader streets of London present no parallel 
in their atmospheric impressions, to the sylvan 
streets of Brussels. Is there one London street— 
we are not speaking of public squares or gardens— 
which can compare with the Boulevard de Waterloo, 
the Boulevard du Jardin Botanique, with the Allée 
Verte, or the Avenue Louise? Indeed, beautiful as 
are some of our London public parks and gardens, 
there is not one of them of the same size as the 
delightful little Pare of Brussels, that can compare 
with the latter in sylvan loveliness—by which 
remark is proved the pre-eminence of our con- 
