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out — whether in a street, in the form of avenues, in immediate 

 association with architectural objects, and if so of what style, or 

 in town squares of large dimensions, in narrow courts, as 

 specimen trees on lawns, or as groups in plantations or 

 shrubberies. These are obvious truisms, but how often do we 

 see them ignored in practice ! In ordinary street-planting it is 

 desirable to employ trees whose form will associate fitly with 

 the architectural features, and it is not desirable to select trees 

 that will attain the largest dimensions. The object, indepen- 

 dently of the purification of the atmosphere, is to secure shade 



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and an agreeable outlook for the inhabitants and passers-by, 

 not to exclude the light and air from the upper stories of the 

 houses, nor to render them damp. The general use of the Plane 

 is to be deprecated for this reason. Where there is abundance of 

 space at command no nobler or more suitable tree can be found ; 

 notice, for instance, the 



Brotherhood of venerable trees 

 to be seen in Berkeley Square — a magnificent group in the centre 

 of the town. But trees of such dimensions and of spreading habit 

 lining the sides of a street would be highly inconvenient. If 

 planted at all in such situations, constant pruning and regulating 

 are necessitated, with the result of producing an artificial 

 and constrained appearance. 1 



