SOME OTHER TREES 



sold on the fruit- stands of Philadelphia, Bos- 

 ton and New York. This, the "kaki" of Japan, 

 is a small but business-like tree, not substan- 

 tially hardy north of Georgia, which provides 

 great quantities of its beautiful fruits, rich in 

 coloring and sweet to the taste, and varying 

 greatly in size and form in its different varie- 

 ties. These 'simmons do not need the touch 

 of frost, nor do they ever attain the fine, wild, 

 high flavor of the frost-bitten Virginian fruits; 

 the tree that bears them has none of the 

 irregular beauty of our native persimmon, nor 

 does it approach in size to that ornament of 

 the countryside. 



And now, in closing these sketches, I be- 

 come most keenly sensible of their deficiencies. 

 Purely random bits they are, coming from a 

 busy man, and possessing the one merit of 

 frankness. Deeply interested in trees, but lack- 

 ing the time for continuous study, I have been 

 turning my camera and my eyes upon the 

 growths about me, asking questions, mentally 

 recording what I could see, and, while thankful 

 for the rest and the pleasure of the pursuit, 



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