THE PINES 



I wonder how many of my readers realize 

 that an exquisite bit of real hemlock forest lies 

 not five miles from Boston Common ? At the 

 Arnold Arboretum, that noble collection of 

 trees and plants, "Hemlock Hill" is assuming 

 deeper majesty year after year as its trees 

 gain age and size. It presents exactly the 

 pure forest conditions, and makes accessible to 

 thousands the full beauty and soothing that 

 nothing but a coniferous forest can provide 

 for man. There is the great collateral advan- 

 tage, too, that to reach Hemlock Hill, the 

 visitor must use a noble entrance, and pass 

 other trees and plants which, in the adequate 

 setting here given, cannot but do him much 

 good, and prepare him for the deep sylvan 

 temple of the hemlocks he is seeking. To 

 visit the Arboretum at the time when the 

 curious variety of the apple relatives — pyruses 

 and the like — bloom, is to secure a great 

 benefit of sight and scent, and it is almost 

 certain to make one resolve to return when 

 these blossoms shall, by nature's perfect work, 

 have become fruit. Here the fruit is grown 

 for its beauty only, and thus no gastronomic 



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