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Bctula Icnta. Natural Order: Bdulacccc — Birch Family. 



NOWN as the black, cherry or sweet Birch, and sometimes 

 (.ailed mountain mahogany from the hardness of its wood, this 

 \aluable tree abounds in the United States from New England 

 to Ohio, and often reaches a height of seventy, and a diameter 

 of three, feet. Children are very fond of the inner bark of this 

 tree in springtime, when it has an aromatic fragrance and 

 pk i>~cint flavor. It is from the Paper Birch that the Indians obtain 

 the baik for their light and buoyant canoes, in which they glide in 

 safety through the most dangerous waters. The Yellow or Siher 

 Hnch ib the artist's tree par excelkiicc. Its beautiful outer bark, like 

 satin in luster, peels from around the trunk and branches, and hangs 

 in the most fantastic rolls and curls, resting on an undertone of warm 

 and tender brown, making it one of the choicest and most illuminat- 

 in a woodland sketch, and one that always delights a painter's heart. 



Jbgant^. 



POR faultless was her form as beauty's queen. 

 And every winning grace that lo\ e demands, 

 With mild attemper'd dignity was seen 

 Play o'er each lovely limli, and deck her angel mien. 



—Mrs. TigUc. 



TIER face so fair, as flesh it seemed not, 



But heavenly portrait of bright angels' hue, 



Clear as the sky, withouten blame or blot. 



Through goodly mixture of complexion's dew. 

 -Stei,s,-r. 



pRACEFUL to sight, and elegant to thought, 

 ^ The great are vanquish'd, and the wise are tauglit. 



T' 



*HE silk star-broidered coverlid 

 Unto her limbs itself doth mold. 



Languidly ever; and, amid 



Her full black ringlets, downward rolled, 



Glows forth each softly -shadowed arm. 

 With bracelets of the diamond bright. 



Her constant beautv doth inform 



.Stillness with love, and 



with light. 

 — Tcnnr.-o 





