night.

Fire fighters were called to the scene at 11.29 p.m. but they were too late to save it.

"All the leaves were burnt,'' a Fire Service spokesman said yesterday. The blaze is believed to have been caused by a group of kids hanging out in the area.

Earlier in the evening at 8.34 p.m., fire fighters put out a small fire in a trash can on the premises of the Reading Clinic on Serpentine Road. There was no damage.