GETTING ACQUAINTED WITH THE TREES 



its limbs crowded with broad leaves ; the 

 young tree is lusty of growth and clean of 

 bark, a model of rounded beauty and a fine 

 variant from the overworked maples of our 

 streets. 



Again, the tale of woe ! for the great lin- 

 dens of our forests are nearly all gone. Too 

 useful for timber; too easy to fell; its soft, 

 smooth, even wood too adaptable to many 

 uses! Cut them all; strip the bark for "bast," 

 or tying material ; America is widening ; the 

 sawmills cannot be idle ; scientific and decent 

 forestry, so successful and so usual in Europe, 

 is yet but a dream for future generations here 

 in America ! 



But other lindens, those of Europe espe- 

 cially, are loved of the landscape architect and 

 the Germans. "Unter den Linden," Berlin's 

 famous street, owes its name, fame and shade 

 to the handsome European species, the white- 

 lined leaves of which turn up in the faintest 

 breeze, to show silvery against the deep green 

 of their upper surfaces. Very many of these 

 fine lindens are being planted now in America 

 by landscape architects, and there are some 



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