Abstract
LONDONERS owe a debt of gratitude to Mr. Webster for this book. Not until its pages have been read will one in a thousand of the inhabitants of the Metropolis have any conception of the variety of trees that grow within its limits. The ubiquitousness of the plane and its surpassing merit as a London tree are apt to give the impression that there is little else. It is, of course, the fact that many of the more uncommon species are hidden away in private or semi-private grounds. The garden of Fulham Palace, for instance, is classic ground to students of trees, for here in the early years of the eighteenth century grew the finest collection of trees in Britain, planted by Compton, then Bishop of London. Fulham is a place very different from what it was 200 years ago, but even now, Mr. Webster tells us, the grounds there are rich in rare and curious trees, some probably the finest in London.
London Trees.
By A. D. Webster. Pp. xii + 218 + 32 plates. (London: The Swarthmore Press, 1920.) 15s. net.
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B., W. London Trees . Nature 108, 142 (1921). https://doi.org/10.1038/108142b0
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