The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-05-16
MORNING JOURNAL AND COURIER THURSDAY MAY Is loo

remarkable for size, health and com pletenass of contour may be found. These leafy citizens are none the less remarkable, considering how they are built in above and below, and have to live on scarce, adulterated sunshine. Very few perhaps of the thousands who hurry through Newgate street daily take even q glance at the charming lit- tie oasis of greenery that will refresh them if they turn aside to the entrance to Christ church, and will allow them selves time to appreciate the verdant freshness of the turf and the weeping ash seemingly mourning for the dem olitiOn of the prison opposite. The last remaining fragment of the old Roman wall that encompassed London city forms a conspicuous feature in the burial ground of Cripplegate church, surely the prettiest in the city. Its well kept garden forms a delight full oasis, and very prettly Illustrates the value of grass lawns and raised mounds in such a situation. The Church of St, Sepulchre, on Holborn ViaduCt, is worthily embellished with some catkin-be bearing trees, which add immensely to the dignity and ampll- tude of the viaduct roadway; and here, again, the ivy constitutes conspicu-' ous feature. The attractions of Fins bury Circus and the Park as 1t is called, of BishOpsgate, do not need to be enlarged upon, because they ar well known. In the churchyard of St. Margaret, Ironmonger lane, will be found a number of planes and other trees the ground beneath them laid | out in @ series of beds edged with stone or tile edgings, but destitute of | plants, which we suppose the shade of the trees has killed. And this would happen again unless the plants were well adapted to the situation And yet that barren ground might be clothed without cutting out any of the trees.
 When We quit the city boundaries and look outwards many patches of | greenery attract attention. as of the city, but not ciyically within it. The Thames Embanl,meut Lincolu'a Inn, | hel3s Gray's Inn, with its rookery, the older squares, and many open spaces laid out by the Metropolitan Public Gardens association, may be referred
 to as especially interesting, both for their situation in districts densely built over, and for their great usefulness, materially and morally, to the people who commonly enjoy them
 When the vogue for beautifying the streets of London by tree planting first | began, it was natural that the promo
 ters should consider the edge of the curb as the most suitable place. as the arbored ornamentation is likely to be
 more out of the way there than else
 where. The public parks of London
 have become indispensable as a means of recreation, and many handsome
 trees are to be found there, the beech, elm, lime horse-chestnut, oak, poplar, ! ash, and of course, the plane tree, which sets soot at defiance
 The patriarch of Hyde Park is the
 iyy-clad stump of an old oak near the
 superintenlents house, there it re-
 mains supported by props-a relic of
 bygone days. It is said to have been
 raised from an acorn gathered from the
 celebrated Boscohol oak in which
 Charles II. hid after the Battle of ! Worcester in 1851. The first lines oi