284 OUR WOODLAND TREES. 
will rarely need to interfere with the culture of 
flowering plants. Where gardens are small, Trees, 
closely planted, would perhaps produce too much 
shade for the lovers of small flowering plants. 
But, though the occupant of a small enclosure 
might wish to indulge a passion for ‘ flowers’ to 
the utmost, he might, with advantage to his more 
favoured plants, find room for at least one or two 
small Trees; whilst into gardens whose owners are 
not desirous of filling every inch with flowers, or 
other small herbaceous plants, there is a vast field 
for the introduction of Trees. __; 
How often do town suburban dwellers long for 
the privacy which town and suburban gardens 
rarely afford! Yet how easily this desire could 
be satisfied by the ‘planting out’ with the 
graceful and beautiful forms of Trees of the 
‘oversight’ of neighbouring houses. One reason 
for the great longing which townspeople expe- 
rience for the seclusion of the woodland and for 
the ‘ quiet country walk’ is found in the irksome 
absence of such seclusion in their town gardens, 
unless these happen to be of large extent. How 
much better than the sight of stones, bricks, and 
