FOREST ADOHNMENT 



some of the most superb effects of 

 spring. A multitude of rhododen- 

 drons or great laurels covers some 

 mountain side, carrying its drifts of pale 

 rose far back into the woods. A mass 

 of redbuds and flowering dogwoods, 

 the former again rose-colored, the latter 

 a creamy white, pours out from the 

 forest's edge among ledges of rock and 

 low hills. The wild plums and thorns, 

 with their delicate flowers, are beauti- 

 ful in the same manner, and in addition 

 have a pretty habit of strajdng out and 

 away from the woods, much like the 

 red juniper. 



Our shrubs are no less beautiful in 

 their separate parts than they are mag- 

 nificent in their united profusion. The 

 common sweet magnolia is especially 

 well favored. Its elegantly elliptical 



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