In the body of our work will be found notices of other trees and green spots, that surprise the observer in the thick of the noise and smoke. Many of them are in churchyards. Others have disappeared during the progress of building. Many courts and passages are named from trees that once stood in them, as Vine and Elm Court, Fig-tree Court, Green-arbour Court, &c. It is not surprising that _garden-houses_, as they were called, should have formerly abounded in Holborn, in Bunhill Row, and other (at that time) suburban places. We notice the fact, in order to observe how fond the poets were of occupying houses of this description. Milton seems to have made a point of having one. The only London residence of Chapman which is known, was in Old Street Road; doubtless at that time a rural suburb. Beaumont and Fletcher's house, on the Surrey side of the Thames (for they lived as well as wrote together), most probably had a garden: and Dryden's house in Gerard Street looked into the garden of the mansion built by the Earls of Leicester. A tree, or even a flower, put in a window in the streets of a great city (and the London citizens, to their credit, are fond of flowers,) affects the eye something in the same way as the hand-organs, which bring unexpected music to the ear. They refresh the common-places of life, shed a harmony through the busy discord, and appeal to those first sources of emotion, which are associated with the remembrance of all that is young and innocent. They seem also to present to us a portion of the tranquillity we think we are labouring for, and the desire of which is felt as an earnest that we shall realise it somewhere, either in this world or in the next. Above all, they render us more cheerful for the performance of present duties; and the smallest seed of this kind, dropt into the heart of man, is worth more, and may terminate in better fruits, than anybody but a great poet could tell us. FOOTNOTES: [1] See Evenings at Home, by Dr. Aikin and Mrs. Barbauld. [2] History of England, 4to. 1670, p. 11. [3] We learn this from Selden's notes to the Polyolbion of Drayton. [4] Picture of London, 1824, p. 3. [5] These etymologies are to be found in Maitland's History and Survey of London. Fol. 1756. Vol. i. Book i. [6] In the notes to Drayton's Polyolbion, Song viii. [7] There is a Lunden in Sweden, mentioned by Maitland, vol. i. _ubi sup._ It is the capital of the province of Schonen. Another town of the name is in Danish Holstein.