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FAMILIAR TREES AND THEIR LEAVES. 



Red Mulberry 



ries, resembling in 

 shape and size long 

 wild blackberries. 

 The leaves, as one 

 may see from my 

 drawings, are ex- 

 tremely variable in 

 figure ; perhaps it 

 may occasion some 

 surprise when I say 

 that these leaves which 

 I have drawn all came 

 off the same tree. This 

 particular tree grows in 

 the Pemigewasset Val- 

 ley (White Mountains), 

 just in front of an 

 ideal farmhouse, and 

 is not over 15 feet 

 high ; but it is extraor- 

 dinarily beautiful both 

 in roundness of figure 

 and in brilliancy of fo- 

 liage. 



Nothing is more 

 charming in color than 

 the leaves of a young 



