282 OUR WOODLAND TREES. 
ment of any object which it is desirable in the 
interests of the community to promote, have 
always two courses of action open to them—their 
collective and their individual action. Through 
the central government, the town council, or the 
vestry they can introduce what are called public 
reforms. But they can also do very much in 
ten thousand ways, in the direction of improve- 
ment, by their individual action. 
The extension of public parks and gardens, 
and the formation of ‘sylvan streets’ must de- 
pend upon the action of public bodies—action, 
however, which can always be very powerfully 
stimulated by individual effort. But in every 
town, city, or inhabited district there is a large 
extent of ground absolutely within the control of 
individuals, and opening up a great field for the 
introduction of Trees. Looking down from some 
height upon a city or suburban district, one can 
rapidly guage the extent of this private territory, 
the manner of its distribution, and the character 
of its appropriation. There will be inequality 
observable everywhere, both in the matter of 
allotment, and in the matter of the taste exhibited 
