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in the former season, so that its music will attract 

 us to the presence of the wintry Alder. Gilpin 

 loved the Alder, though his praise of it had chiefly 



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Alder. 



reference to its foliaged condition. Comparing 

 another waterside tree the Willow with the 

 Alder, he thought that the latter was c the more 



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