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tour is added a light-green color, and a soft green velvety 

 texture suggested rather than felt. In June, its yellow 

 flowers are beautiful, but its foliage alone should obtain 

 for it much employment as a summer tree. 



There is again the liquid ambar or sweet gum. We all 

 know this tree, and prize it much for its rich red color in 

 fall. Scarcely less lovely, however, are the summer quali- 

 ties of its light-green star-shaped leaves and generally unique 

 effect. Indeed, we can hardly employ it distinctively as a 

 summer tree, because of its great ornamental value at all 

 seasons. 



Nor would I like to forget in this connection another 

 forest tree, of most excellent and shining qualities in the 

 summer-time, as well as in the earlier days of spring. The 

 tulip-tree is noble at most times, but never more so 

 than when it rears its lofty shining foliage above the sur- 

 rounding summer greenery. If the tulip-tree were more 

 easily transplanted it would be more widely planted, for it 

 is in every way an excellent shade and ornamental tree. 

 The remedy for this defect or difficulty in transplanting is 

 obtained by setting out in spring young trees four to six 

 feet high. I must not forget before leaving the tulip to 

 speak of the magnificent erect bole its trunk presents. 

 Only corrugated in the bark enough to give it a look of 

 strength, the smooth tall shaft springs up to a great height 

 and makes at all times one of the most attractive features 

 of the tree. 



Magnolias generally on account of their flowers belong 

 more particularly to spring, but midsummer should claim 

 at least one species, the American M. macropliylla. It is 



