Shrub Growth

Amongst shrubs that may be seen in a more or less thriving condition in London, special reference may be made to the Aucuba, Privet, Euonymus, Sy-ringa, Colutea, Olearia, Forsythia, Osman-thus, Ribes, and others. Regarding the first four, it will be unnecessary to mention even a few of the many localities where they are to be found growing freely throughout the metropolis - both in urban and suburban districts. Even in the most smoky and dusty parts the Aucuba, Privet, Euonymus, and Lilac thrive in an amazing manner, seeming almost to defy the atmospheric impurities with which they have to contend. Olearia Haastii is another excellent shrub for planting in London, and may be seen doing well in some of the most smoky parts, as at Lambeth, Red Lion Square, and in the Whitfield Gardens off Tottenham Court Road. The less common O. macrodonta is even superior to the present species for withstanding soot and dirt. The Flowering Currant seems to be peculiarly suited for thriving in the impurest of town atmospheres, and is quite at home in the East End of London, as also at Lambeth, in Soho Square, and in most of our public gardens. In the Bladder Senna (Colutea) we. have a valuable shrub for planting in London, and good examples may be seen at Chancery Lane, by the Tower of London, and o 2 in the chemically impure atmosphere of Lambeth and other adjoining places. Vinca minor (the Lesser Periwinkle) may be seen in quite a healthy condition in St. Paul's Churchyard and in the gardens of Lincoln's Inn Fields; while in Houndsditch both Ampelopsis Veitchii and the Common Ivy do remarkably well.

The Common Hazel

The Common Hazel is healthy and happy in the smoky, dusty grounds of the Home for Asiatics, East India Dock Road, as also in the Tower gardens.

The Bird Cherry (Cerasus Padus)

The Bird Cherry (Cerasus Padus) may be seen in good form within a stone's throw of the Royal Mint; while by the smoky and dusty Commercial Road a fairly large specimen of that by no means common London tree, Ginkgo biloba, may be seen.

Of Roses the following are found to do best in London: - Blanc Double de Coubert, Caroline Testout, Clio, Gloire de Margotten, Grace Darling, Gustave Regis, Hugh Dickson, Madame Georges Bruant, Madame Isaac Periere, Mrs. John Laing, Pink Rover, Ulrich Brunner, Gruss an Teplitz, Ben Cant, Beauty of Waltham, Countess of Oxford, Duke of Teck, Duke of Edinburgh, Duke of Wellington, Fisher Holmes, General Jacqueminot, Prince Camille de Rohan, Frau Karl Druschki, Mrs. Sharman Crawford, Mrs. Geo. Dickson, Ideal, Killarney, Mrs. J. W. Grant, Joseph Hill, Gloire Lyonnaise, Liberty, Marquis of Salisbury, Mildred Grant, Wichurianas, Alberic Barbier, Rene Andre, Dorothy Perkins, Lady Gay, Polyanthus, Crimson Rambler, Philadelphia, Queen Alexandra, Longworth Rambler, Blush Rambler, Psyche. The dwarf China Roses do well for rockwork; also the dwarf Poly-antha Roses.