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Title: Greenwich Park: its history and associations
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Webster, Angus Duncan
Subjects: Greenwich Park, Greenwich Numismatics, Roman
Publisher: Greenwich H. Richardson
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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y known that one of the largest thorns in this country is growing in the grounds of the Rangers Lodge, a little distance from the Blackheath entrance. It is fully 50 feet high, and over 7 feet in girth of stem. The chestnut-leaved oak (Quercus castaneifolia) has a noble representative near the old bath; while the purple-leaved beech, whose branch spread is 57 feet in diameter, has few equals around London. Other interesting trees in the same grounds, are the tulip tree, with a fine cleanbole 60 feet in height; the ailanthus or tree of Heaven; the yellow-flowered horse chestnut, and a giant specimen of the medlar, all of which are growing around what is known as The Mound. Nearer to the Rangers Lodge, is a goodly specimen of that, by no means common Canadian tree, the June berry (Amelanchier); though of the same species, an almost unique representative may be seen in one of the tree-clumps on the left of the main avenue, about midway between Blackheath entrance and the Royal Observatory. Other rare
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Photo by Ml Old Spanish Chestnut in Greenwich Park, Potter, TREES AND SHRUBS. 55
trees and shrubs in the Rangers Grounds, are the golden catalpa, cut-leaved beam, several specimens of the snowdrop tree (Halesia tetraptera), Pyrus torminalis, as well as a rich collection of hardyheaths, azaleas, rhododendrons, ralmias, and the far from common lily of the valley tree (Andromeda cassincefolia), many fine plants of which are to be found in the dell. There is also a well shaped and healthy specimen of the hornbeam by the fence opposite the Rangers House, while the London plane, and several forms of acacia are quite at home amongst the smoke and soot to which the Park every day is becoming more subjected. Both the holly and ever-green oak have attained unusual dimensions. But by far the richest collection of shrubs and trees in the Park, is in the enclosed ground by the pond, where not less than 1,300 kinds are to be seen. Here are magnolias, ornamental thorns, arbutus, almonds, paperbirch, double floweri

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