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on a high hill. The hill is covered with large trees 

 of many kinds. We found sugar maple, beech, oak, 

 poplar, white ash, and many other trees and shrubs. 

 I think the white ash trees are the prettiest of all, 

 they are so tall and straight. The leaves have come 

 out on the sugar maple trees, and the buds are open- 

 ing on some other trees. 



" The wild red cherry tree grows only about twenty 

 feet high and its trunk is from three to six inches in 

 diameter. It is very common in all the river basins 

 in Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont. It blos- 

 soms in May and is then a very showy tree. In the 

 last part of summer it is made beautiful again by its 

 bright red fruit. The leaves of the red cherry are 

 about three inches long and about half as wide. 

 They have a serrate margin and a sharp apex, and 

 both sides are bright green." Eura. 



The Aspidium Novaboracense. 

 "The Aspidium Novaboracense, or New York 

 shield fern, as it is sometimes called, is found chiefly 

 in New York state, but it is found as far south as the 

 James River, west to Ohio and Lake Huron, and 

 north to the Gulf of St. Lawrence. It is found grow- 

 ing in both sun and shade, though it prefers a damp, 

 shady spot. It grows generally about one foot and a 



