EXISTING TREES AND SHRUBS OF EPPING FOREST. 387
Amelanchier canadensis, a North American cousin of the pear,
found in Lord's Bushes.
Castanea vulgaris, the Sweet Chestnut. The old trees on
the green at Wanstead and those near the rhododendrons, in
what was once the Oak Hill enclosure, have no doubt been
planted, but there are others of various ages near Copt Hall
evidently seeded from trees in the park.
These natural introductions are always interesting, but
deliberate planting of trees brought from without the forest
should be discouraged. If planting is necessary, and I think
in some parts it is, everything planted should be taken from the
forest. The aim should be merely to assist and accelerate Nature.
There are several open spaces that are much larger than necessary,
the outer edges of which might be planted with hawthorns, leaving
the trees to spread naturally through the cover thus provided.
This method would be certainly less objectionable than the one
which has been adopted of planting specimen trees at nice regular
intervals.
Before closing these notes it may be well to mention a few
shrubs not in the foregoing list, but which might be expected to
occur in the present forest area. Some of them I believe I have
seen in past years, but have now lost sight of. Any that are
known to exist by other members of the Club should be recorded
in the Naturalist. [All these plants have been recorded for the
forest by various observers from Warner's time onward, but Mr.
Elliott's desire is, of course, to know whether they how exist in the
woods under the control of the Conservators.—W. Cole.]
Berberis vulgaris, L. Barberry.
Genista tinctoria, L. Dyer's Green Weed.
Prunus padus, L. Bird Cherry.
Pyrus communis, L. Wild Pear.
Viburnum opulus, L. Guelder Rose.
Myrica gale, L. Sweet-gale, or Bog-myrtle.
Juniperus communis, L. Juniper. This used to occur in
Warner's time between Waltham Abbey and Epping.
Those who have seen the luxuriant masses of Juniper
in Burnham Beeches would be glad to welcome it
back to Epping Forest.