TREES AT LEISURE 



But, to return to the field, 

 there are other tree tenants of 

 the safe fence corners that are 

 worth knowing: the low broad 

 thorn-apple, with its more or 

 less horizontal branches divid- 

 ing and subdividing into a 

 frenzy of twiglets, shows a fit- 

 ting framework for the great 

 bridal bouquet which will cover 

 it next June; the straight- 

 limbed bird cherry with its 

 shining bark, perhaps in ragged 

 transverse rolls; and those shrub 

 cousins of the trees, the sumacs, 

 like bronze candelabra, holding 

 their dark pinacles aloft, black 

 sockets whence once blazed 

 crimson flame. 



Many of the trees planted by 

 man for man's enjoyment give 

 as good returns in winter as in 

 summer: the honey locust rear- 



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