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our Christmas tide, 

 read of houses decked 



TIic Country Gcntlcmaiis JMagazim 

 In a carol of 1695 we 



reen and so gay." 



" With liolly and ivy, so 



I may close my notice of the religious as- 

 sociations of the \\y. by observing that it was 



[To be continued.] 



spoken of by St Paul as forming the " cor- 

 ruptible crown," competed for at the great 

 Isthmian games, which he so beautifully con- 

 trasted with the " incorruptible crown," which 

 shall hereafter encircle the brows of those who 

 run worthily the race of this mortal life. 



STUDIES OF THE BARK OF TREES. 



THE bark has not been sufficiently 

 studied as a character, either by artists 

 or by arboriculturists. In many trees it is 

 most distinctive, and most men possessing 



Scotch fir, to the mind of our arboricultural 

 readers to satisfy them that this is so. It be- 

 gins, however, to be more attended to. M. 

 Franz Antoine, in his plates of Pinus leuco- 



Bark of Cedrus Deodara. — From a Photograph 



only a moderate knowledge of trees could 

 with ease determine many of them by a mere 

 glance at it. We have only to recall the beech, 

 the Spanish chestnut, the ash, the oak, the 



dermis, gives a large view of parts of the 

 bark as a scientific character, and there 

 is little doubt that in future it will be 

 more largely made use of. It appears to us 



