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The Garden Magazine, June, 1922 



Branson M. De Cow, Photo. 



"THE WHITE BIRCH IS A LADY, IN A GLITT'RING SILVER GOWN, 



A LADY WITH THE GRACES OF THE GAYEST BELLE IN TOWN. 



IN HER RAIMENT SOFT AND DAINTY SHE'S A DRESDEN SHEPHERDESS, 



WITH HER PETTICOATS AFLUTTER AS THE BREEZES BLOW HER DRESS." 



Adele Middleton Russell 



Well might this be a silver-white way leading into fairy-land,, 

 so fraught with magic suggestion is the Birch, particularly 

 in early summer before its ethereal delicacy is dispelled by hot 

 mid-summer suns. Such an approach as this near Bethlehem, 

 New Hampshire, adds much charm to any place, pitching; 

 the imagination at once to pleasurable expectancy; and even 

 a short path gains in beauty when similarly planted 



