Trees and shrubs, hardy in the British isles (1914) (14758237226)

Identifier: treesshrubshardy01bean (find matches)

Title: Trees and shrubs, hardy in the British isles

Year: 1914 (1910s)

Authors: Bean, William Jackson, 1863-

Subjects: Shrubs Trees

Publisher: London J. Murray

Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto

Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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always be the chief stand-by forthe planter in the central depths of large cities. The following notes areintended to apply to the average streets of the outer London suburbs andprovincial towns. Jersey Elm.—In the first place I would call attention to trees ofa naturally pyramidal habit. It is essential in nine-tenths of the streetplanting, as we have to deal with it to-day, that the trees should maintaina tapering form. The middle of the street must be open to the sky, andthe house windows must not be obscured. Therefore one great gainwould be secured by planting trees whose shape conformed to theserequirements with little or no pruning. In Kcw are grown severalexamples of what is commonly known as Wheatleys or the Jerseyelm — Ulmus stricta var. Wheatleyi. Some of them I have known forthirty years, and although during that time they have never beensubjected to the least pruning, they are still within the dimensionssuitable to streets of average size in the suburbs of London. How

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Jersey Elm, Llmus struta var. \\heatU\t. I.) (Fact p. M. STREET PLANTING 87 well might such a tree fill the place of thousands of tortured planes andlimes! It was not until I visited Eastbourne some years ago that Ifound its value had already been appreciated by, at any rate, onetownship. It is the chief tree of that popular resort, lining the streets, Iimagine, to a total of several thousands. Whilst it is there, to my mind,planted too much to the exclusion of other trees, it offers a splendidexample of the ideal street tree. Some of the older specimens, like thosein Devonshire Place, have trunks i8 ins. in thickness, but if they haveever been pruned the evidences of it are not visible. The Cornish elm, Uhnus sfricfa, is very similar to the Wheatley elm,but rather less erect in its branching. There is a pyramidal form ofhornbeam, Carpifuis Betulus var. pyramidalis, somewhat slower of growththan the two elms just mentioned, but of similar habit. It is sometimesplanted in the towns of

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