GETTING ACQUAINTED JFITH THE TREES 



offensive to a quickened sense of appropriate- 

 ness. Long since the old home has been swal- 

 lowed up by the city's advance, and I suppose 

 none who now see those four spires of green 

 on the river -bank even guess at the reason for 

 their existence. 



The poplar family, as a whole, is exuberant 

 with vigor, and interesting more on that account 

 than by reason of its general dignity or strength 

 or elegance. It is well worth a little attention 

 and study, and the consideration particularly of 

 its bloom periods, to which I commend the 

 tree -sense of my readers as they take the tree 

 walks that ought to punctuate these chapters. 



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