Petula lenta. Narurar Orver: Betulacee —Birch Family. 
a) 
i’ NOWN as the black, cherry or sweet Birch, and sometimes 
~ called mountain mahogany from the hardness of its wood, this 
valuable 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 
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tree in springtime, when it has an aromatic fragrance and 
7 Pleasant flavor. It is from the Paper Birch that the Indians obtain 
the bark for their light and buoyant canoes, in which they glide in 
safety through the most dangerous waters. The Yellow or Silver 
Birch is the artist’s tree par excellence. Its beautiful outer bark, like 
satin in luster, peels from around the trunk and branches, and hangs 
ae 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- 
ing trees in a woodland sketch, and one that always delights a painter’s heart. 
Bileqancg. 
OR faultless was her form as beauty’s queen, 
And every winning grace that love demands, 
With mild attemper’d dignity was seen 
Play o’er each lovely limb, and deck her angel mien. 
—Mrs. Tighe. 
ER face so fair, as flesh it seeméd not, HE silk star-broidered coverlid 
But heavenly portrait of bright angels’ hue, Unto her limbs itself doth mold, 
Clear as the sky, withouten blame or blot, Languidly ever; and, amid 
Through goodly mixture of complexion’s dew. Her full black ringlets, downward rolled, 
— Spenser. Glows forth each softly-shadowed arm, 
With bracelets of the diamond bright. 
RACEFUL to sight, and elegant to thought, ; 
Her constant beauty doth inform 
The great are vanquish’d, and the wise are taught. : : Gea 
, Feat Stillness with love, and day with light. 
— Tennyson. ! 
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