. My garden, its plan and culture together with a general description of its geology, botany, and natural history. Gardening. 412 My GARDEN. it has been sadly injured by the cutting ordered by the road sur- veyor, who about our district forbids any tree to encroach upon the roadway. This tree in early spring produces so much cotton with the seeds that the ground is covered with it, and therefore it does not please tidy gardeners. It is, however, most, ornamental, both when growing by itself—when its form is specially beautiful—and when judiciously mixed with other trees. There is a variety cal
. My garden, its plan and culture together with a general description of its geology, botany, and natural history. Gardening. 412 My GARDEN. it has been sadly injured by the cutting ordered by the road sur- veyor, who about our district forbids any tree to encroach upon the roadway. This tree in early spring produces so much cotton with the seeds that the ground is covered with it, and therefore it does not please tidy gardeners. It is, however, most, ornamental, both when growing by itself—when its form is specially beautiful—and when judiciously mixed with other trees. There is a variety called acerifolia, of great beauty. I have a tree or two of the Balsam Poplar (Populus balsamifera), which has balsamic, gummy excretions about the buds, exhaling a powerful odour; and also a Weeping Poplar, which is a variety of a species of no great importance, but pretty amongst small trees or shrubs. It is the earliest of all forest trees in coming into leaf. Our district abounds in noble Horse-chestnut trees {/Esculus Hippocastanum, fig. 937). Although the avenue of horse-chestnut trees at Hampton Court is justly esteemed as one of the finest examples of its kind in Europe, yet the full majesty of each tree is rather spoilt by the trees having been crowded together. When a single tree is in flower, it presents one of the most glorious sights of the vegetal kingdom. The tree takes the general form of a gigantic pyramid, and occasionally the branches hang down for many yards, which give it a peculiar and elegant appearance. In spring the tree is covered with blossom, every flower being a F,o.,3;.„ pyramid, and every floweret a model of beauty. In Kensington Gardens there are a few trees of surpassing beauty, yet I generally have given the preference to those in Beddington Park. Within the last ten years some of the magnificent trees in the Park have been cut down. Unfortunately, the fruit of this stately tree is unfit for human food. Deer, however, are so f
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