THE LANDSCAPE BEAUTIFUL 



trast with Colorado and Vermont. It 

 would be terrible to be without trees alto- 

 gether. I£ there should ever be a dull, 

 monotonous world, where all landscapes 

 must be alike, let it be a world full of trees. 



A recent magazine story tells of a 

 seven-year-old Arizona girl who stood 

 dancing under a scrubby little Cottonwood 

 tree and clapping her hands to the rustling 

 leaves. The stranger said to her mother, 

 "Your little girl seems to be much de- 

 lighted by the tree." 



"Ah, yes, she may well be so," said the 

 mother. "It is the first tree she ever saw." 



One might live without art galleries, 

 without theaters, possibly without libraries; 

 but to live to be even seven years old with- 

 out trees seems like the culmination of all 

 hardships. 



Trees are peculiarly adapted to the 

 landscape. They are suited to it like sails 

 to a boat. They are the most indispensable 

 of materials for landscape-making. Even 

 the landscape architects, in their puny, little 

 works, use thousands of them. Amongst 

 these craftsmen, trees are bought and sold 

 by millions, and they all go to landscape- 

 making. 



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