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variety. A beech tree, in its prime, fifty or more years 

 old, makes a feature on the lawn of inestimable value. 

 Money value can hardly express it. Two or three such 

 specimens will make an otherwise somewhat ordinary 

 place a great and distinguished estate. The beeches are 

 hard to transplant and slow of growth in youth, but they 

 are well worth the trouble of establishing. The Kolreu- 

 teria paniculata (varnish tree) is fine in summer, has been 

 long known, and but little used. Its showy panicles of 

 yellow flowers are very welcome in July and it is hardy. 

 Of all native trees there is hardly any one that quite 

 equals the tulip,. To hear Henry Ward Beecher praise 

 it for he knew and loved trees was a treat, es- 

 pecially to hear his grand voice roll out with sonorous 

 accents its botanical name, Liriodendron tulipifera. 

 The tulip makes a lofty tree with a fine stem and lovely 

 foliage both in shape and colour, really quite curious in 

 its way, and in June the yellow flowers nestle attractively 

 among the leaves. It is not an easy tree to transplant, 

 having fleshy roots somewhat like the magnolia: it 

 should always be set out in the spring, not in the fall. 

 The oriental plane is a notable tree in summer with its 

 lofty form and thick spreading foliage. There are 

 more beautiful trees but few that endure so well difficult 

 conditions, especially in cities, or that grow faster and 

 at the same time keep their beauty better in mature 

 years, and they are not, moreover, difficult to trans- 

 plant. It is a mistake to condemn any class of hardy 

 trees, for they all have their value. Even poplars^ whose 

 beauty is apt to be short-lived unless skilfully pruned, 



