FOREST ADORNMENT 
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 straying 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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