318 TREES. 



body can catch " suckers" in a still pond, but a trout must be tickler 1 

 with dainty bait. Yet true sportsmen do not, for this reason, prefei 

 angling with worms about the margin of stagnant pools, when they 

 can whip the gold-spangled beauties out of swift streams with a 

 little skill and preparation, and we trust that in future no true lover 

 of trees will plant " suckers " to torment his future days and sight, 

 when he may, with a little more pains, have the satisfaction of en- 

 joying the shade of the freshest and comeliest of American forest 

 trees. 



