8 TREES OF MASSACHUSETTS. 
ually leave you, and give place to hardier foresters. As you go 
south, the same gradual change takes place from the desertion 
of the pines and birches, and the addition of new oaks, and 
other trees. Every one feels the difference in the effect pro- 
duced on the mind by the forests of Berkshire, and the woods of 
Norfolk or Essex county. The practised eye detects the cause 
of the difference in the different trees which constitute the forest, 
and still more in the different proportions in which the same 
trees are combined. 
These numerous trees and the still more numerous flowering 
shrubs which belong to our forests, all capable of being made to 
flourish freely in every part of the State, give the planter who is 
studious of the effects of landscape, inexhaustible resources. 
Some of the trees grow habitually to the height of only thirty 
or forty feet; others rise to seventy or a hundred. Judiciously 
grouped in planting, they are capable of giving to a level plain 
the appearance of any desired inequality of surface. The tall 
pines, elms and sycamores at a distance, will seem to occupy 
a hill, the hickories and maples, to clothe its sides, while the 
spreading beeches, broad oaks and hanging birches, will form 
the gradnal descent to the plain. Among these, a winding path 
leading under or near the largest trees and behind thickets, may 
give to a few acres all the advantages of variety of a large 
forest. 
Tio many persons, the pleasantest season in our climate is 
autumn, and to a lover of nature the mech and infinitely varied 
gorgeousness of the autumnal woods is a most important addi- 
tion to the enjoyment of that season in the country. Hach tree 
has its own color, or rather its own class of colors,—tints and 
shades which belong to it and to it alone. ‘T'rees to be planted 
about a residence should be selected in reference to this circum- 
stance as well as to the time and variety of their flowering. 
Early autumn becomes gay with the vivid crimson of the tupelo 
and the sumach. A little later come out the rich orange and 
yellow of the sugar maple, with the gold and scarlet of the red 
flowermg maple. The soft olive tints of the ash, the warm 
browns of the hickory, the purples of the cornus florida, the 
