SOME OTHER TREES 



in the North and on high dry places, in 

 the South and in wet places north it becomes 

 another "tree of the first magnitude," wide- 

 spreading and heavy. A stellar comparison 

 seems to fit, because of these wonderful 

 leaves. They struck me at first, hunting pho- 

 tographs one day, as some sort of a maple ; 

 but what maple could have such perfection 

 of star form? A maple refined, perfected, and 

 indeed polished, one might well think, for 

 while other trees have shining leaves, they are 

 dull in comparison with the deep -textured 

 gloss of these of the sweet -gum. 



Here, too, is a tree for many places; an 

 adaptable, cosmopolitan sort of arboreal growth. 

 At its full strength of hard, solid, time -defying 

 wooded body on the edge of some almost 

 inaccessible swamp of the South, where its 

 spread -out roots and ridgy branches earn for 

 it another common name as the "alligator 

 tree," it is in a park or along a private drive- 

 way at the North quite the acme of refined 

 tree elegance, all the summer and fall. It 

 takes on a rather narrow, pyramidal head, 

 broadening as it ages, but never betraying kin 



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