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MINNESOTA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



THE MAPLE MONARCH. 



W-itten for the "Horticulturist." 



Tall, stately, with wide sweep of branch, 

 Resisting well the winter's avalanche 

 Of snow and sleet. The fiercest gale 

 Had small efifect, but a moaning wail 



A handsome specimen of the Rock Maple, standing on farm of J. O. Weld, 

 Mound (Lake Minnetonka), two feet in diameter at butt and sixteen feet 

 from ground to first branch. 



