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persons realize, of the trees natural to New England 

 or long in cultivation here, that ninety per cent, of 

 the number may be seen without going outside of the 

 city's limits. Such is the case, however, and special 

 nooks and corners can be named where there are 

 opportunities for an afternoon's profitable study — 

 Lafayette and Laurel streets for maples ; Felt street 

 for maples and introduced trees ; Harmony Grove 

 and Kernwood for oaks and hickories ; Broad street 

 cemetery for several scarce introduced trees, might 

 be mentioned ; and so on — but more of these places 

 later. Outside of the city, Brimble avenue, Beverly, 

 offers great advantages. It is accessible from rail- 

 road stations at either end, and being recently laid out 

 directly through woods where there are an unusually 

 large number of species of native trees, it is an excel- 

 lent ground for dendrologizing. 



In these sketches the trees will be dealt with in 

 their botanical order, using the best established com- 

 mon name, but adding, in brackets, the botanical name 

 given in the sixth edition of Gray's Manual of Bota- 

 ny for the benefit of those who may desire to look 

 up the technical descriptions, or refer to plates in 

 other works. The trees will thus be introduced in 

 little family groups, and for each species examples 

 will be cited in different parts of Salem, or its im- 

 mediate neighborhood, in places easily found and 

 where the trees may be readily observed by anyone 

 who may care to do so. 



Mat twenty-ninth. 



