TEANSACTIONS. 



SESSION 1912-1913. 



I.— EDINBURGH'S PARK AND OTHER TREES. 



By Mr A. D. RICHARDSON, Assoc. Bot. Soc, Edin. 

 {Read Nov. 27, 1912.) 



Except in some of the private gardens, Edinburgh, compared 

 with many other cities, is not well provided with fine park 

 trees, and still less so with good street trees. In fact, system- 

 atic street planting has been almost wholly neglected in the 

 city, and, with a few exceptions, what has been done in this 

 way is very poor. Nevertheless, there is a considerable variety 

 of interesting trees in the parks and gardens, both public and 

 private, and, considering how well many of them have suc- 

 ceeded there, one marvels that more use has not been made of 

 some of them for street planting. This remark applies more 

 especially to the so-called London plane (Platanus acerifolia) 

 (Plate II.), which, both under the most favourable conditions 

 and in the most exposed parts of the city, grows quite as 

 vigorously as almost any of the other broad-leaved species. 

 As is well known, there is no other tree which will compare 

 with the London plane in its ability to resist injury from soot 

 and other noxious matters which generally occur in a town 

 atmosphere, although, owing to the comparatively pure state 

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