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LONDON PARKS & GARDENS 
The Train e-ground in Regent’s Park b&?. m Sc a 
spacious to produce all that is required m the 
way of spring and summer plants. The fogs are ibe 
greater enemies of the London gardener, and move 
especially on the heavier soil of Regents Park. Not 
even the most hardy of the bedding-out plants will 
survive the winter, unless in frames. Even wall-flowers 
and forget-me-nots will perish with a single bad night 
of fog, unless under glass. Although, on the other 
hand, it is surprising how some species apparently un¬ 
suited to withstand the climate will survive. Among 
£4 •. private rock-garden within 
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beauty is so protracted, 
n. ill -truck in frames, one row of fifty-three 
£1 ted to them, in which 23,750 cuttings 
3 re put annually. The green-houses are used -for stor¬ 
ing plants not only for the decoration of the Park 
but for some fourteen other places outside The 
Tote they Law Courts, Mint, Audit OSkc, the 
Mivo.euDe Marine in Poplar, are all summ - from 
Park. The Tate Gallery and Hertford 
- to be catered for also. Whether the 
he Wallace Collection even n e'-: e the 
it 'e m possible to say; they :n\ghi e- ee-rr 
absence. But He gardeners have to give dee few 
pots considerable wre, as they will only •mnn for a 
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