33 THE FLORAL WORLD AND GARDEN GUIDE. 
suitable spot for a fernery, and the tree and the ferns together make 
their owner happier than many another combination that might be 
guessed at. 
If another subject of the very choicest kind be wanted, we may 
find it in the Weeping Aspen, Populus tremulus pendula, which, if 
allowed its own way, grows like the locks of Lady Godiva, and fur- 
nishes a delightful comment on the text, ‘Nature unadorned is 
adorned the most.” The tremulous poplar is a beautiful tree any 
day. How bravely an old tree throws its arms about, as if conscious 
POPULUS TREMULA, 0. PENDULA. 
that they are hung all over with trembling leaves, that flash like 
discs of bright metal as they tremble perpetually as if with an over- 
powering sense of joy that the warm summer has again embraced 
them. A bad metaphor is better than one that suggests a painful 
thought; why, then, did the ancients picture the aspen as thrilled 
with horror about something? It may just as well tremble with 
Joy a8 with any other feeling. Moore hit the mark when he wrote— 
