and so we should, purple, red and purple green, but it is not more 

 beautiful than the Scarlet Maple, which when clouded with its 

 dazzling blossoms in the Spring seems more a gigantic shrub than 

 anything I know. 



We are so fortunate, those of us who are "treeing" our land 

 because there is such remarkable material, trees that weep, trees 

 that smile, trees that give grateful shade, trees that give color to 

 drear or somber places, trees that are tenderly graceful, trees that 

 hide what we would not see, trees that are like friends, and trees 

 that grow so fast, we wonder, then we sigh that we had not 

 planted them heretofore and more lavishly. 



All the trees I have mentioned are fast growing. All those 

 I shall speak of are also fast growing, producing for us mature 

 effects in a few years. If carefully planted in the Spring and given 

 a mulch the first Summer, they will amaze you. The "Moonbeam 

 Family" I call my weeping, silver, cut-leaved birches, because the 

 moonbeams played upon them in such a curious way lighting up 

 the silvery bark and the countless pure white Foxgloves and Hya- 

 cinthus Candicans massed all about, with Snow-in-Summer, clumps 

 of Iberis and thousands of daffodils. On the roadside, with a 

 stately, if somewhat somber forest of pines in the background 

 were white sentinels "sweetly spectral"; "strangely shadowy." 

 There they stood on guard these European white Birches; some 

 were over forty feet tall and with eight and nine branches spring- 

 ing from one root. Quite wonderful they were ! Another worthy 

 member of the Betula Birch family is Pyramidalis, growing as 

 straight and slim as a Lombardy Poplar, Speaking of Poplars, why 

 is Tremuloides Pendula the rarest, the most beautiful of all the 

 poplars, so infrequently seen with its fluttering leaves and mar- 

 velous grace? One might ask why the fern-leaved Linden is not 

 more generally planted, lacey, colorful and easily grown. 



Perhaps there is a lack of knowledge concerning many trees 

 that may be safely and successfully planted when fourteen feet tall 

 and more. But Silver Birches, for example, of ten or twelve feet 

 seem to thrive better than those planted when fifteen and sixteen 



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