278 OUR WOODLAND TREES. 
ing streets—and river wharves, and many other 
places where Trees might be advantageously 
planted within the City of London. The delight- 
fulness of having Trees on the stream-side has 
been recognized in the planting of the Thames 
Embankment. But there are miles of river 
frontage through the heart of the metropolis en- 
tirely denuded of any Tree growth, of any shrub, 
or of any green life. 
What a vast and beneficent reform would be 
effected if every possible street corner, angle, and 
dismal open space throughout the length and 
breadth of the metropolis were Tree-planted. 
Such a delightful reform would entirely transform 
the present aspect of City life by accumulating a 
great store within the most stifling part of the 
huge domain of bricks and mortar, ef healthful- 
ness and beauty. 
