42 FAMILIAR TREES AND THEIR LEAVES. 



White Mountains nor in any j>art of the country 

 immediately south of them. There are two beauti- 

 ful little trees, perhaps 12 feet high, in the Arnold 

 Arboretum, of quite symmetrical proportions. On 

 the 21st of October, 1895, I noticed that these trees 

 had scarcely shed a dozen leaves apiece ; but three 

 days later (a heavy frost had intervened) not one 

 leaf was left on either tree.* In Milton, Mass., there 

 is a tree measuring over 40 feet in height, and in 

 Manchester, Mass., near the center of the town, is an- 

 other quite as high. 



* The foliage of the sassafras, more than that of any other 

 tree except the horse-chestnut, is conventional to a fault. One is 

 impressed with the similarity between the leafage in an old print 

 of Bewick's and that of the sassafras ; both are regular and deco- 

 rative. 



