110 Forest Tras. 



White Ash (Sorbus Alba) that I admire. I can even discover 



sublimity in its round dense head and spire-like trunk, reaching 

 often seventy feet without a limb. It is one of our most useful 

 timber trees. 



Hardy Evergreen Trees, from the forest, are ornamental for a 

 lawn any season of the year, and eminently so in the winter, 

 when deciduous trees present so bleak and uninteresting an ap- 

 pearance. 



Our forests yield a number of fine and stately trees which are 

 especially ornamental, among which are the White or Weymouth 

 Pine, (Pinus Strobus,) also the well-known Silver Fir or Balsam, 

 (Piuus Balsamea,) which is one of the finest native evergreens, 

 and is remarkably hardy and rapid in its growth. 



The American Arborvitae (Thuya Occidentalis) should not be 

 neglected, either as specimen lawn trees or cultivated in the orna- 

 mental screen or hedge. This evergreen bears the shears well, 

 which the pines and balsams will not. 



The beauty of our autumnal foliage is world-renowed. This, in 

 part, is caused by our variable and changeable climate. In 

 Europe their autumnal frosts do not come upon the trees as early 

 as here, consequently their leaves and foliage suffer a gradual de- 

 cay, and turn into the sere and yellow leaf almost imperceptibly, 

 leaving none of those bright scarlet tints which make our wood- 

 lands, in autumn, such a richly colored panorama. This beauty 

 of American scenery has been the theme of the poet and paintei", 

 and I remember now the glowing description of autumnal scenery 

 we read in our school-boy days, written by N. P. Willis. 



American climate is such that trees and their foliage grow until 

 very late into autumn, and when the first frost finds them, which 

 is often a severe one, they are luxuriating in all the emerald green 

 of early summer. The foreigner is first to notice the gorgeous 

 tints of the Scarlet Oak, (Quercus Coccinea,) the bright glow of 

 the crimson Dogwood, (Cornus Florida,) the deep scarlet of the 

 different varieties of the Acer or Maple, the various shades of yel- 

 low or orange, the reddish purple of our American Ash — a distinct 

 sombre purple. These are but a few of the most striking tints 

 that refresh the eye of the foreigner upon his arrival in this 

 " fresh green forest land." 



