276 OUR WOODLAND TREES. 
the same kinds may especially be selected for 
planting throughout the metropolis, many quar- 
ters of which, outside city limits, are, of course, 
subject to more favourable conditions of growth, 
than those prevailing in the heart of the largest 
city in the world. 
In commenting, generally, upon the subject to 
which hig interesting paper refers, the writer in 
The Gardener’s Magazine remarks that, ‘The old 
churchyards are for the most part the favoured 
spots wherein the Trees are found, but the City 
still possesses a few genuine gardens, those of 
the Temple, Finsbury Circus, Clifford’s Inn, and 
Bartholomew’s Hospital, abundantly justifying 
the care bestowed upon them, by their beautiful 
appearance. The garden of Finsbury Circus is 
certainly the best in all the City; would that we 
had a few more to compete with it, in respect of 
relative merit! It contains two hundred estab- 
lished Trees, comprising about thirty species and 
varieties, besides under-shrubs of many kinds, 
that our list takes no notice of. A walk round 
this beautiful enclosure will inevitably suggest 
to any experienced observer, that, in planting a 
