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states, was intended to reproduce the character of 

 the woods with which he had been familiar. Pass- 

 ing this farm-house and wood-lot, one reaches rela- 

 tively open areas and looks across fields to homes 

 on various cross roads. Then the road again be- 

 comes shaded, this time with sycamores which reach 

 their untrimmed spreading branches quite across 

 the roadway as though the trees on one side were 

 shaking hands with those on the other, and here 

 again is the same combination that was seen in the 

 ravine mentioned with the first road, a grouping of 

 sycamores with extensive stretches of Indian cur- 

 rants. 



After passing the sycamores and again looking off 

 over the surrounding country, the road passes be- 

 tween thickets of hawthorns of perhaps a hundred 

 different varieties. It would pay one to travel out 

 from town in the spring to see these hawthorns when 

 they are in bloom, or again in the fall covered with 

 fruit and richly colored foliage. Some distance be- 

 yond the belts of thorns are thickets of wild plums 

 leading up to Kentucky coffee trees, and these, in 

 turn to honey locusts. Protected by one of the wild 

 plum thickets is a red-bud showing its pink blossoms 

 above the white flowers of its neighbors. Extending 



