THE TREES OF AMERICA. 61 



PLATE XL 



STOEM TilEEj (^Epi> CEDAR,) NAHANT, MASSACHUSETTS. 



This is one of tlie few trefes which stood upon Nahant when Mr. Tudot 

 began his Jtree-planting there. "Forty years since," said a gentleman to the 

 author, " I visited Nahant, and do not recollect of seeing a single tree. It 

 seemed to me the very picture of bleakness and desolation. The very idea of 

 attempting to plant trees seemed the height of folly. I would almost as soon 

 haye made the attempt upon the sand washed by the waves as amongst those 

 barren,. desolate rocks. W^n I first heard the experiment had been tried, it 

 seemed like an idle.;dsreami!- "Now I ll^vfe' come to see- for myself, and the half 

 has not been told me. Surely, if htunan energy and talent cl&:n do all this, what 

 desert, however desolate, but may^be made to feudrand blossom as the rose 1 I 

 would rather have done this than to have conquered a nation." ""'And this was 

 said by one who has made for himself a portion to which many look up.'" The 

 rocks in our picture tell the story of difficulties overcome, when we compare the 

 appearance here with that where tha«^alm of Gilead stands. We have called 

 this tree: tlie Storm Tree from its appearing as if it were continiially struggling 

 in a gale of wind. Its branches all point to the south-westl The very bark 

 has been worn from the north-eiast side. of the tree by the north-east gales. 



The Eed^Cedar — Juniperus Virgini'ma — of which there are many varieties, 

 has a geographical range, it is said, superior to any tree known. " It is found," 

 says Emerson, "in America, fi'om the SaskatchawaTi,**in Canada, latitude fifty- 

 four -djegrees, as far as Georgia, Florida^ Louisiana, "the Bermudas,' and Bafbadoes 

 Islands; around the Gulf of Mexica beyond St. Barnard's Bay, and through the 

 western states to the Eocky Mountains. It abounds in Europe and Northern 



