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in the former season, so that its music will attract 

 us to the presence of the wintry Alder. Gilpin 

 loved the Alder, though his praise of it had chiefly' 



Alder. 



reference to its foliaged condition. Comparing' 

 another waterside tree— the "Willow^ — with' the • 

 Alder, he thought that the latter was ' the more 



