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vertical, or nearly vertical Lranches, tapering upwards liii^lier than ii;ust 

 of our trees, seems to have been instinctively recognised at once. 



' The Poplars in long order due.' 

 may have a somewhat formal effect if we look at them apart from 

 the laudscaj)e, in a near or confined view. They then appear simply 



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as a stiff row of from three to a dozen (they are seldom more and 

 should not be less) trees, incongruous in outline with those around 

 them, and suggesting nothing so much as those red-stemmed, green- 

 chip marvels of the German toy-box of our youth. The beauty of 



